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Cheryl Fields, MPH
Cheryl Fields is Lecturer in Epidemiology & Public Health at Yale University, where she teaches a graduate course in toxicology. She received her BA in biology from New York University and earned her MPH in Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University.
Before joining Jonathan Borak and Company in 2003, she worked as a Research Coordinator in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where her research focused on the growth and neurological development of children following pre- and post-natal exposures to lead, pesticides, and PCB’s. Prior to that, she worked on the research staff at Columbia University Center for Children’s Environmental Health where she contributed to studies of the adverse impacts of chemical exposures and emotional trauma in pregnant women (resulting from the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse) on the growth and neurological development on their fetuses. She has also worked as a research assistant in the Molecular and Cell Biology laboratory at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where she studied murine embryogenic muscle development.
As a Research Scientist at Jonathan Borak and Company, Ms. Fields’ work combines expertise in toxicology and epidemiology. She provides consultative and research services on issues involving environmental and occupational toxicology and their effects on public health. Her recent projects have included a summary of the toxicological properties of flame retardant chemicals, an evidence-based critique of screening tests for beryllium sensitization, an analysis of the adequacy of iodine in the US adult diet, and a state-of-the-art literature review on the neurological and renal effects of occupational exposures to elemental mercury, the risk of cancer associated with occupational and environmental exposures to petroleum and petroleum-based products, and the risk of leukemia and lymphoma associated with exposure to benzene.
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