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Lynn R. Goldman, MD, 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. She is a renowned expert in pediatric environmental health and chemicals policy. She has contributed academic scholarship that has helped shape this field of study. She also has engaged in translating research to policy through writing policy analyses and via Congressional testimony in service of successful efforts by Congress to achieve passage of reforms to both federal pesticide law (the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act) and federal chemicals law (the 2016 Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act) as well as legislation to establish California’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.

Dr. Goldman was previously Professor of environmental health sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (1999–2010); Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances at the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she directed the Office of Chemical Safety and Prevention (1993–1998); and Chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control (as well as other positions) at the California Department of Public Health.

She completed a BS and an MS from the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), an MD from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF); an MPH from Johns Hopkins University; and pediatric residency training at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland.

Dr. Goldman is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and received the NAM Walsh McDermott Award for service to the academy. She was a recipient of the Heinz Award for Global Environmental Change and the American Public Health Association Environment Section’s Homer M. Calver Award. Currently, she is a Trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund; Chair of the board for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health; a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council; and Chair of the NIH Advisory Committee for the ECHO Study. In addition to these roles, Dr. Goldman serves on the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Environmental Health Matters Initiative. She has received alumna awards from Johns Hopkins (Woodrow Wilson Award for Excellence in Government and memberhip in the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars); UCSF (150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award); and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health (Alumna of the Year and Influential Alumni Award).