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Please join us for a trainee lunch with Krista Christensen of the US EPA:
Wednesday, April 26, 11:45am-1:00pm ET
HSPH Building 1, Room 1302 and via Zoom
Lunch will be served.
RSVP jmgoodman@hsph.harvard.edu so that we can order the right amount of food!
Using Epidemiological Evidence for Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessments
Krista Christensen, Ph.D., MPH
US-EPA Office of Research and Development
Krista’s talk will include basic information about the IRIS program/risk assessment, and how the EPA uses systematic review methods to incorporate epidemiological data in both hazard identification and dose-response assessment, including dose-response of epi data to derive toxicity values. Because these calculations often use already published data Krista will discuss the punch list of “what we would like researchers to include in their publications so we can use their data”. She will also talk more generally about career paths and training and is happy to answer your career trajectory questions!
Krista Christensen is an epidemiologist with the Chemical Pollutant Assessment Division (CPAD) of the US Environmental Protection Agency. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from Northwestern University, and an MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from Emory University. Krista worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for six years and completed a post-doctoral appointment at the Universite de Montreal before joining EPA’s Quantitative Risk Methods Group from 2010-2014. After a move to the midwest and five years’ experience as an epidemiologist at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and at the University of Wisconsin, Krista rejoined the EPA in 2019. Krista works on various human health risk assessments, is one of the co-chemical managers for the PCBs IRIS assessment, and is a member of the Epidemiology Working Group within CPAD.
Presented by the MEMCARE Superfund Research Center (NIH/NIEHS P42ES990030)