Hosted by DEOHS School of Public Health, University of Washington
Speaker: Dr. Julia Gohlke
Dr. Gohlke is a Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. She received her BS in Biology from University of Michigan, PhD from the University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and completed postdoctoral training at NIEHS. Her research to date has utilized a range of developmental toxicology and environmental epidemiology methods. She has authored over 90 peer reviewed publications and 17 book chapters/technical reports. She has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Environmental Health, on a National Academies of Science panel evaluating the use of dispersants during oil spills, and as an external reviewer for NIH, EPA, NASA and NSF, among others. She teaches graduate level courses in environmental health and risk assessment, and directs a NIEHS-funded PhD training program in rural environmental health. Her research group is currently employing spatial epidemiology methods to examine health outcomes associated with resource extraction sites, and heat and flood events across urban and rural landscapes. She collaborates with earth scientists, environmental engineers, geographers, computer scientists, and statisticians.