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Biography
Elizabeth Irvin-Barnwell graduated with a BS in Human Biology and Anthropology from Emory University and a PhD in Toxicology from the University of Georgia. She
completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Epidemiology at the University of Georgia where she evaluated body burden levels of environmental contaminants during pregnancy
in women living in Trujillo, Peru. She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in February 2010 as
an Epidemiologist with the Health Investigations Branch. While at CDC/ATSDR, she has served as the lead project officer for the Polycythemia Vera Cancer Cluster
Investigation where she provided expert consultation, guidance, and oversight for more than 15 research projects, including epidemiological, toxicological, environmental
and genetics studies. Currently, she is working as a Community Studies Team Lead in the Environmental Epidemiology Branch where she supervises a group of multi-
disciplinary scientists working on a number of diverse projects.