Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Ph.D., Professor, received her BA in mathematics, MA in biostatistics, and PhD/MPH in epidemiology from UC Berkeley. After 12 years on the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill, she returned to California to join the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences (formerly Dept Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine). Her research interests are in environmental exposures (metals, pesticides, PCBs, air pollution), pregnancy outcomes (spontaneous abortion, fetal growth, early child development), and epidemiologic methods (left truncation in survival analysis, the ‘healthy worker survivor bias,’ timing issues, and use of epidemiologic data in quantitative risk assessment). She authored the chapter “Environmental Epidemiology” in the textbook “Modern Epidemiology” by Rothman and Greenland, and currently serves on editorial boards for the American Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Epidemiology, as well as on scientific advisory boards for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Previously she served on the Governor’s Carcinogen Identification Committee for the State of California, the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Toxicology Program and the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Autism Research. Dr. Hertz-Picciotto chaired the U.S. Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Agent Orange and other Herbicides in 2000 and 2002. She directed the program in Reproductive Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill and is the Deputy Director of the Center for Children’s Environmental Health at UC Davis, focused on autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. She has taught courses on four continents, won the Bernard Greenberg Award for Excellence in Teaching, has been dissertation advisor for 20 doctoral students, four of whom won prizes for work conducted as a doctoral student, and mentored more than three dozen other PhD students.

• Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, California
• Received her BA in mathematics, MA in biostatistics, and PhD/MPH in epidemiology from UC Berkeley.
• Spent 12 years on the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill, School of Public Health.
• She authored the chapter “Environmental Epidemiology” in the textbook “Modern Epidemiology” by Rothman and Greenland
• Currently serves on editorial boards for the American Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Epidemiology
• Also serves on scientific advisory boards for the State of California, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
• Chaired the U.S. Institute of Medicine/ National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Agent Orange and other Herbicides in 2000 and 2002.
• Directed the program in Reproductive Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill
• Currently Deputy Director of the Children’s Center for Environmental Health at UC Davis, focused on autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
• She has taught courses on four continents, was dissertation advisor for 17 doctoral students, four of whom won prizes for work conducted as a doctoral student, and mentored three dozen other PhD students.