Jane C. Schroeder received her DVM from the University of California, Davis, in 1985 and worked several years as a small-animal veterinarian after completing a small-animal medicine and surgery internship at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1994 she received an MPH in environmental and occupational health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and in 1999 was awarded a PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). After two years as a research fellow in epidemiology at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Dr. Schroeder returned to UNC-CH as an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she taught epidemiologic methods and cancer epidemiology, and conducted research on environmental, dietary, genetic, and microbial risk factors for a variety of cancers. She joined Environmental Health Perspectives as Science Editor in December 2008.

Jim Burkhart received his bachelor of science degree from the University of Missouri in 1969 and following active military service returned there to complete a master’s degree in physiology and chemistry. He received his doctoral degree in biochemistry and genetics from North Carolina State University in 1989. He has a broad range of research experience and expertise in mutagenesis, protein and nucleic acid chemistry, reproductive toxicology, transgenic research in mammalian and aquatic species, aquatic toxicology, and environmental chemistry.

He joined the Division of Genetic Toxicology, National Center for Toxicological Research as a research chemist in 1975 where he developed new methods for detecting biochemical variation among animals and offspring exposed to environmental mutagens. In 1978 he took a position as a research chemist in the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina where he conducted genetic and reproductive toxicology research. He also held an adjunct appointment with the Duke University School of the Environment 1991-1994.

In 1994 he became head of the Environmental and Alternative Systems Group. He led efforts to development and implement multidisciplinary approaches to assessing the impact of environmental contaminants. He studied molecular mechanisms and the developmental impact of complex environmental exposures in aquatic species and mammals. He has worked with federal, state and local environmental and public health agencies on issues and research associated with contamination of aquatic ecosystems. He has considerable experience in environmental chemistry and the issues that integrate human health and environmental degradation. He has been active in review of research initiatives sponsored by both the state and federal agencies.

In 2002 he joined EHP as science editor with a goal of continuing to improve both the scientific quality of the journal and the review process. He also identifies areas of current and future interest in environmental health research and takes an active role in soliciting submissions from ongoing research programs.

Burkhart has received several NIH merit awards and has been invited to publish on use of environmental sentinels for hazard identification and risk assessment. He has been a frequent invited lecturer on complex mixtures, alternative species, and endocrine disruption including: metabolic variation and risk, Paris; transgenic markers in mammals and fish, Seoul; environmental factors in amphibian malformation, Washington, D.C.; complex endocrine disruption, Vienna, Zurich, and Gordon Research Conferences. He has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Donald A. Fox earned a BS in chemistry at Miami University (Oxford, OH) in 1970 and a PhD in toxicology in 1977 from the Department of Environmental Health at Kettering Laboratory, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Davis (1977–1979). Currently Dr. Fox is a professor of vision sciences, biology, biochemistry, and pharmacology at the University of Houston. He also is a Keck Faculty Member of The Gulf Coast Consortia and a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences and of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Dr. Fox is a councilor of the Society of Toxicology, has previously served in leadership roles in the International Neurotoxicology Association, the Neurotoxicology Specialty Section of SOT, and the Retinal Cell Biology Program Committee for ARVO. Dr. Fox currently serves as an associate editor for Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Environmental Health Perspectives, and the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Toxicology and has previously served in similar roles for NeuroToxicology and Cutaneous and Ocular Pharmacology and Molecular Vision. He has served on the National Toxicology Program Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods; the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Panel on Ocular Toxicology for ICCVAM and NICEATM (2004–2006); the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Committees on Vision and Safe Drinking Water (1982–1995); FDA advisory committees; and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Study Sections for Toxicology, Minority and ARCH Grants, and Superfund Grants (1994–2005). He has written more than 75 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and technical reports. Dr. Fox’s main scientific areas of interest are neurotoxicology, adverse effects of toxicants and chemicals in humans and animals during development and aging, essential and heavy metal toxicology, retinal cell and molecular biology, energy and mitochondrial metabolism, apoptosis and cell death, neuroprotection, cellular and molecular imaging, and bioinformatics.

Russ Hauser, MD, ScD, MPH, is an associate professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology in the departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He graduated from Clark University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He received his MPH and ScD from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he completed a residency in occupational medicine. He is board certified in occupational medicine. From 2000 to 2004, he served as deputy director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency, NIOSH Education and Research Center.

Dr. Hauser’s research focuses on the effects of environmental and occupational chemicals on fertility and pregnancy outcomes. He is conducting an epidemiologic study on the relationship of chlorinated chemicals, pesticides, bisphenol A, and phthalates with male and female reproductive health. Maternal end points of interest include infertility and pregnancy outcomes such as early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and preterm birth as well as measures of fetal growth, including birth weight. Male end points of interest include semen quality and sperm DNA damage, as well as the paternal contribution to adverse pregnancy outcomes. The study is being conducted in collaboration with physicians from the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also conducting a prospective cohort study on children in Chapaevsk, Russia, where he is investigating the relationship of exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds with growth and pubertal development in boys. He recently began a two-state study in collaboration with researchers from Yale University on genetic and environmental risk factors for testicular germ cell cancer.

Dr. Hauser has served on two Gulf War and Health committees for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He has also served as a reviewer for two National Academy of Sciences update reports on veterans and Agent Orange. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. He is chair of the Environment and Reproduction Special Interest Group, American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

Kenneth S. Korach is the program director of the Environmental Diseases and Medicine Program, chief of the Laboratory of Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology, and chief of the Receptor Biology Section at the NIEHS. He received his PhD degree in endocrinology from the Medical College of Georgia in 1974. His doctoral advisor was the late Thomas Muldoon, in whose laboratory he characterized biochemical properties of estrogen receptors in the pituitary and hypothalamus.

From 1973 to 1976, Dr. Korach was a postdoctoral biological chemistry research fellow at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of the late professor Lewis Engel, where he developed steroidal affinity and photoaffinity substrate reagents for characterizing the human placental estradiol dehydrogenase enzyme. He also received a Ford Research Fellowship award while at Harvard. Dr. Korach joined the NIEHS in 1976, where he has headed a research group investigating the basic mechanisms of estrogen hormone action in reproductive tract and bone tissues with an application toward understanding how hormonally active environmental estrogens influence physiological processes. During this time Dr. Korach has studied the role of the estrogen receptor in mediating hormonal responses in uterine tissue; characterized estrogen receptor and hormonal responsiveness during early development; described the coupling of growth factor and nuclear receptor signaling pathways; investigated estrogen carcinogenesis and toxicity; and created mouse lines using different transgenic technologies and gene targeting strategies for evaluating the role of the estrogen receptor in endocrine regulation and hormonal carcinogenesis.

Dr. Korach was an editor for Endocrinology, the flagship journal of the American Endocrine Society, and is the past editor-in-chief of the journal. He holds multiple adjunct professorships in the Department of Molecular Toxicology as well as Biochemistry at North Carolina State University, in Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina Medical School, and in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical School. He was appointed into the Senior Biomedical Research Service (SBRS) at the NIH. He is the recipient of NIH outstanding performance awards, NIH Merit Awards, numerous keynote meeting lectureships, the Medical College of Georgia Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Edwin B. Astwood Award from the Endocrine Society, the Keith Harrison Lecture Award from the Australian Endocrine Society, the Transatlantic Medal from the British Endocrine Society, and the Firkin Oration Research Award from the Australian Society of Medical Research.

Matthew P. Longnecker is a senior investigator in the Epidemiology Branch of the NIEHS. He graduated from Antioch College and Dartmouth Medical School, completed a residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital, and then received a doctorate in epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. He was an assistant professor of epidemiology at UCLA School of Public Health before joining NIEHS in 1995. He has authored more than 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Epidemiology, Epidemiology, and Environmental Research.

At present Dr. Longnecker’s research focuses on the health effects of early-life exposure to environmental contaminants. He has ongoing projects to examine the effects of DDT, bisphenol A, and organophosphate pesticides. These projects are being conducted in Africa, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Norway.

R. Julian Preston, PhD, currently serves as acting associate director for health for the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He served as director of the Environmental Carcinogenesis Division at the EPA from 1999 until August 2005. Prior to this appointment, he served as the senior science advisor at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, from 1991 to 1999. He was employed at the Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from 1970 to 1991, where he was appointed Section Head, Human Genetics in 1987. He also served as associate director for the Oak Ridge–University of Tennessee Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences. He is currently an adjunct professor at Duke University and North Carolina State University. Dr. Preston received his BA and MA from Peterhouse, Cambridge University, England, in genetics and his PhD from Reading University, England, in radiation genetics.

Currently, Dr. Preston is chair of Committee 1 (Basic Biology and Epidemiology) of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, and a member of ILSI’s Global Threshold Project and HESI’s DNA Adducts and Risk Assessment Project. He has served on several National Academies committees including serving as chair on the committee to review the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program.

Dr Preston is an editorial board member of Mutation Research, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, Chemico-Biological Interactions, and Health Physics. His research and current activities have focused on the mechanisms of radiation and chemical carcinogenesis and the approaches for incorporating these types of data into cancer risk assessments. In particular, he is developing approaches for addressing how key events for tumorigensis can be used to select informative bioindicators of response.

Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. She received her PhD and MPH in the environmental health sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed a Pew Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies. Previously she was a senior scientist and policy advisor in the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Woodruff has conducted extensive research and policy development on environmental health issues, with particular emphasis on early-life exposures and development. Her research areas include adverse perinatal health effects from air pollution, characterizing exposures to chemicals during pregnancy, developing the first national characterization of air toxics across the United States, children’s health risks, and environmental health indicators.

Board of Associate Editors

Steven K. Akiyama, PhD—Office of the Scientific Director

Allen Dearry, PhD—Office of the Director

Kimberly Gray, PhD—Division of Extramural Research & Training

Stephanie Holmgren—Office of the Deputy Director

Kembra Howdeshell, PhD—National Toxicology Program

James Huff, PhD—Office of Risk Assessment Research

Ruth M. Lunn, DrPH—Report on Carcinogens

Robin Mackar—Office of Communications & Public Liaison

Liam R. O’Fallon—Division of Extramural Research & Training

Jerry Phelps—Division of Extramural Research & Training

John E. Schelp—Office of Science Education & Diversity

Kristina Thayer, PhD—Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction

Mary S. Wolfe, PhD—National Toxicology Program

International Program

Partnership Editors

Pierre-André Cabanes, MD—Environnement, Risques et Santé (France)

Carlos Oropeza-Abúndez—Salud Pública de México (Mexico)

Siaka Sidibe, MD—Mali Médical (Mali)

Maria Cecilia de Souza 
Minayo, PhD—Ciência & Saúde Coletiva (Brazil)

Michael Taub Suazo, PhD—Ciencia y Trabajo (Chile)

Fan Wu, MD—Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China)

Shengnian Zhang, MD—Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine (China)

Regional Editors

Kalpana Balakrishnan, PhD—Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute (India)

Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo, PhD—National School of Public Health (Brazil)

Yn-Chul Hong, MD, PhD-Institute of Environmental Medicine, Seoul National University (South Korea)

Haidong Kan, PhD—Fudan University School of Public Health (China)

Nuntavarn Vichit-Vadakan, DrPH—Thammasat University (Thailand)