Lynn R. Goldman, M.D., MS, MPH Michael and Lori Milken Dean, the George Washington University

Lynn R. Goldman, M.D., MS, MPH, a pediatrician and an epidemiologist, is the Michael and Lori Milken Dean and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University. Formerly the Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where she oversaw the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, she is a renowned expert in pediatric environmental health and chemicals and pesticides policy. Dr. Goldman has engaged in translating research to

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policy through writing policy analyses and via Congressional testimony in service of successful efforts by Congress to achieve passage of reforms to federal pesticide law (the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act) and federal chemicals law (the 2016 Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act for the 21st Century) as well as legislation to establish California’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.

She was previously Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, as well as other positions, at the California Department of Public Health.

She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and received the NAM Walsh McDermott Award for service to the academy. She is a recipient of the Heinz Award for Global Environmental Change and the American Public Health Association Environment Section’s Homer M. Calver Award. Currently, Dr. Goldman serves on the National Research Council Environmental Health Matters Initiative and is a Trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund.

Dr. Goldman holds a BS and MS from University of California, Berkeley; an MD from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); an MPH from Johns Hopkins University; and she completed pediatric residency training at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California. She has received alumna awards from Johns Hopkins University (Woodrow Wilson Award for Excellence in Government and election to the Society of Scholars); UCSF (150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award); and the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health (Alumna of the Year and its Influential Alumni Award).

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Recent publications & presentations

2023 | April

Zigo L, Wilkinson A, Landry M, Castel AD, Vyas A, McDonnell K, Nagaraj NC, Goldman LR. “Use of Rapid Antigen Tests to End Isolation in a University Setting: Observational Study.” JMIR Formative Research. 2023 Apr 27;7:e45003. doi: 10.2196/45003. PMID: 37040562; PMCID: PMC10176128
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37040562