Ellen Kovner Silbergeld

Silbergeld is a professor in the Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and Environmental Health Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she holds joint appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management and in the Center for Water and Health. She served previously as a professor of epidemiology and toxicology at the University of Maryland Medical School and as a senior toxicologist with the Environmental Defense Fund. Silbergeld received an A.B. (1967) from Vassar College and a Ph.D. (1972) from the Johns Hopkins University, where she was a postdoctoral fellow in environmental medicine and the neurosciences (1972-75).