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Director (Dual), National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER). Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Joint Appointments in Health Policy and Management and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health

Lynn R. Goldman, MD, MPH a pediatrician and an epidemiologist, is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where her areas of focus are public health practice and preparedness, children’s environmental health, and chemical and pesticide regulatory policy. She is co-PI (dual) of the National Study Center for Preparedness and Critical Event Response (PACER), a university-based Center of Excellence funded by the Department of Homeland Security. She also heads the MidAtlantic Health Leadership Institute. Other current projects are in the areas of children’s health in relation the National Children’s Study and pesticide and chemical regulatory policy. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the Board of Health Sciences Policy, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Science, Research and Medicine and the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events.

Between 1985 and 1993, Dr. Goldman served at the California Department of Health Services, most recently as chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, a scientific program that conducted risk assessment, environmental laboratory investigations, birth defects surveillance and epidemiology, environmental epidemiology and environmental exposure studies. In that role, she led a number of public health efforts related to natural disasters (earthquakes) and unintentional releases of chemicals and pesticides in communities, as well as investigations related to health impacts of pesticides, lead, and other environmental hazards. In 1993, Dr. Goldman was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to serve as Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances at the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she directed the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) from 1993 through 1998. As AA for OPPTS she was responsible for numerous complex efforts to implement the nation's pesticide, toxic substances and pollution prevention laws. Under her watch, EPA expanded right-to-know under the Toxics Release Inventory and overhauled the nation’s pesticides laws, established voluntary testing of high volume industrial chemicals and made advances in children’s health and global chemical safety. Dr. Goldman has a B.S. in conservation of natural resources and an MS from UC Berkeley, an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and an MD from UC San Francisco.