Appendix A
Committee Biographies

David C. Dorman, D.V.M., Ph.D. (Chair), is a professor of toxicology in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at North Carolina State University. His research interests include neurotoxicology, nasal toxicology, pharmacokinetics, and cognition and olfaction in animals. He is an elected fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology and the American Board of Toxicology. Dr. Dorman has served on the North Carolina Secretaries’ Scientific Advisory Board. He completed a combined Ph.D. and veterinary toxicology residency program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and holds a D.V.M. from Colorado State University. Dr. Dorman is a national associate of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has chaired or served on multiple National Academies’ committees.

Deborah H. Bennett, Ph.D., is a professor in the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the measurement and modeling of organic compounds both in context of exposure science and environmental epidemiology. She has served on various U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Boards, panels, and advisory committees related to the Exposure Factors Handbook and exposure metrics for the National Children’s Study. She has served as associate editor for the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. She has served as an elected councilor, treasurer, and chair of the awards committee for the International Society of Exposure Science. She has an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She previously served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee to Review EPA’s TSCA Systematic Review Guidance Document.

Anneclaire J. De Roos, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a professor of environmental and occupational health at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. Dr. De Roos is an environmental epidemiologist with extensive experience studying chemical, physical, and biological exposures as risk factors for chronic and acute health outcomes such as cancer, asthma, and infectious illness—in exposure set-

tings including the workplace (pesticides, solvents) and residential communities (pollution, water contamination). Current projects additionally focus on the nexus between the natural environment and human health—such as risks from extreme weather and potential benefits from urban greenspace. At Drexel University, Dr. De Roos teaches classes in epidemiology and environmental health risk assessment. Dr. De Roos has served as an expert/peer reviewer for several national and international risk evaluations, including those reviewing pesticides for the International Agency for Research on Cancer Monograph series, formaldehyde for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Report on Carcinogens, and methylene chloride in paint stripping use for a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency risk assessment. She received her M.P.H. in epidemiology/biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. De Roos served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee to Review DOD’s Approach to Deriving an Occupational Exposure Limit for TCE.

Ellen A. Eisen, Sc.D., M.S., is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an occupational epidemiologist, bridging the fields of environmental health science, biostatistics, and epidemiology. Her research focuses on exposure-response modeling in occupational cohort studies, with a particular interest in methods to reduce selection bias and address time-varying confounding. She has published studies on mortality and the incidence of ischemic heart and lung disease and cancer in worker populations, with a focus on the quantitative assessment of long-term exposure to chemicals and fine particulate matter. Dr. Eisen’s professional activities include service on the editorial board of the American Journal of Epidemiology and on the scientific committee of the International Congress on Occupational Health – Epidemiology section. Dr. Eisen received an M.S. in operations research and statistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and an Sc.D. in biostatistics and occupational health from HSPH. She has served on numerous committees for the National Academies, including the Committee on the Respiratory Health Effects of Airborne Hazards Exposures in the Southwest Asia Theater of Military Operations and the Committee on the Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wendy Heiger-Bernays, Ph.D., is emerita clinical professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health where she applies her training in molecular toxicology to questions about the health impacts of environmental chemicals and pharmaceuticals in water and waste streams on people’s health. Her research focuses on the toxicology and associated health risks of exposure to solvents, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) chemicals, and polychlorinated biphenyls. Dr. Heiger-Bernays’s work relies on innovative technology and information transfer of the science to multiple audiences, including environmental regulatory and health agencies as well as advocacy and

community groups. She has served on multiple U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Advisory Committees and currently serves as a member of the Massachusetts Science Advisory Board for the Toxics Use Reduction Act and the EPA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals as well as chair of her local board of health. She is the immediate past-president of the International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment. Dr. Heiger-Bernays received her Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and she completed postdoctoral fellowships at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Program in Toxicology.

Carmen J. Marsit, Ph.D., is executive associate dean for faculty affairs and research strategy, Rollins Distinguished Professor of Research, and professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. He serves as director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences–funded Emory HERCULES Exposome Research Center and Training Program in the Environmental Health Sciences and Toxicology and was the founding director of the Emory–Georgia Clean Air Research and Education Program in the Republic of Georgia. He leads a multidisciplinary research program focused on understanding the impacts of the pre- and perinatal environments on maternal and child health, utilizing the tools of genomics, epigenomics, and bioinformatics to uncover mechanisms underlying the impact of the environment on health within epidemiologic studies. His current projects are examining the impacts of maternal structural, psychosocial, and chemical exposures on the transcriptomes and epigenomes of the placenta in populations in the United States and in Thailand. He also has an extensive record of research in the utilization of epigenetic biomarkers to understand the etiology and outcomes of human exposure–related cancers. Dr. Marsit was the recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists. Dr. Marsit received a B.S. in biochemistry from Lafayette College and a Ph.D. in biological sciences in public health from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

Keeve E. Nachman, Ph.D., is the Robert S. Lawrence Professor and Associate Chair of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he co-directs the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute and serves as the associate director of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. Dr. Nachman has rigorous training and extensive practical experience in the risk sciences, regulatory toxicology, exposure science, epidemiology, occupational and environmental health, and environmental policy and communication. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of public health, with experience working in two federal agencies (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] and U.S. Department of Defense/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) on issues related to toxicology, epidemiology, exposure science, and risk assessment. Dr. Nachman’s research is funded by U.S. EPA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, and foundations. He has active projects fo-

cused on the development of novel methods to quantify infants’ and children’s soil and dust exposures, prioritization of novel contaminants in human biosolids, and development of occupational exposure factors in the agriculture sector. Dr. Nachman has a Ph.D. in environmental and occupational health policy and an M.H.S. in environmental health science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Nachman contributed to a recent study related to ethylene oxide exposure levels in Louisiana, funded by the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Beyond Petrochemicals Campaign, described in “Ethylene Oxide in Southeastern Louisiana’s Petrochemical Corridor: High Spatial Resolution Mobile Monitoring During HAP-MAP” in Environmental Sciences and Technology in 2024.¹

Anne E. Nigra, Ph.D., Sc.M., is an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Nigra is affiliated with the Columbia University–Northern Plains Superfund Research Program and is the director of the affiliated EARTH Program, which engages high school students and their teachers in environmental health sciences research. Dr. Nigra is an environmental health scientist and environmental epidemiologist with expertise in public drinking water exposures, metal exposures, and chronic health outcomes. Her research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and leverages collaborations with several large epidemiological cohorts. Her active projects are focused on developing novel methods for public drinking water contaminant exposure assessment; evaluating epidemiologic associations of public water contaminants and infant, maternal, and chronic adverse health outcomes; and evaluating the impact of federal water policies and regulatory changes on population exposures and health outcomes. Dr. Nigra is a recipient of an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (2021). Dr. Nigra has an Sc.M. in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Ph.D. in environmental health sciences from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Craig Rowlands, Ph.D., is the principal toxicologist and a distinguished member of the technical staff at UL Solutions (ULS) Global Research and Development. His responsibilities include providing leadership in the innovation of services for chemical safety assessments of consumer products across the ULS enterprise. Previously, Dr. Rowlands was a senior toxicologist at the Dow Chemical Company leading a cross-disciplinary team of regulatory scientists to conduct product risk evaluations. He served as a strategy leader to develop Dow’s Next Generation Safety Center to use new approach methods including in silico, in vitro, and in vivo approaches to design products with more favorable environmental and human health safety profiles. This included application of toxicogenomic, epigenetic, toxicokinetic, and systems biology research programs to investigate the modes of action and molecular mechanisms of toxicants and their impact to

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¹ Committee biographical information updated after release of the report to include relevant disclosure information.

product safety assessments. He has served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Substances Control Act Science Advisory Committee for Chemicals, and he currently serves as a co-chair of the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors’ ad hoc EPA Transcriptomic Assessment Product Panel and the Joint Peer Review Steering Committee on Drinking Water Chemical Standards Conformity. He is also an adjunct professor at Michigan State University. Dr. Rowlands was awarded the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Mechanisms Specialty Section Carl C. Smith graduate student award for meritorious research and served as the president of the SOT Molecular and Systems Biology Specialty Section. He earned a B.S. and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Karolinska Institute, and served as a staff fellow at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Veronica Vieira, D.Sc., M.S., is a professor in the College of Health Sciences and the chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Her current work includes evaluating birth defects and infant morbidity in relation to air pollution using generalized additive models, and she has worked with the Boston University Superfund Research Program. She works extensively with reconstructing historic environmental exposures using geographic information systems and has experience with groundwater modeling and perfluorooctanoic acid. Dr. Vieira collaborated on the C8 Health Project, contributing to several health and exposure studies, and is currently an investigator on the UCI per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) Health Study, part of a multi-site study sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. She received her M.S. in environmental engineering from Stanford University and her D.Sc. in environmental health from the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Vieira served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on the Guidance on PFAS Testing and Health Outcomes.

Joseph Wiemels, Ph.D., is a professor in the Center for Genetic Epidemiology in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC) studying the molecular epidemiology of childhood leukemia and brain cancer. He has been a faculty member for more than 22 years, previously at the University of California, San Francisco. His work concentrates on etiology and prevention of cancer, incorporating concepts of genetic susceptibility and interaction with environmental exposures and infections. His research group consists of both laboratory- and computational-based scientists who are focused on the interaction of inherited genetics and environmental factors in causing specific mutational and epigenetic changes, and the specific timing of these events during the development of the child. Dr. Wiemels’s doctoral work examined the metabolism and toxicity of benzene and butadiene, and he has worked throughout his career on establishing mechanistic relationships between environmental agents and cancer risk. Dr. Wiemels was a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar and is currently an associate director of the Norris Comprehensive

Cancer Center (NCCC) at USC, managing the shared resources of the NCCC. He is a member of several scientific societies, including the American Association for Cancer Research and American Society of Hematology. Dr. Wiemels earned a Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral training in the molecular etiology of leukemia at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK. Dr. Wiemels served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Review of EPA’s 2022 Draft Formaldehyde Assessment.