Please join the EHS Department for Dr. Baumert’s seminar, A Translational Science Approach for Investigating the Relationship between Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD), on Wednesday from 12:40–1:30 PM in Warnell Forestry Resources 1, Room 0304.

Dr. Brittney Baumert is an environmental epidemiologist and T32 Environmental Genomics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Her research focuses on precision environmental health, specifically, how persistent
organic pollutants, particularly per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), contribute to metabolic disease risk in children and adolescents. She integrates epidemiology with multi-omics and translational approaches to uncover mechanisms linking persistent
organic pollutant exposure to metabolic disease, with the goal of identifying biomarkers and advancing precision prevention strategies

Dr. Baumert earned her PhD in Environmental Health Science from Emory University, where she help to establish the SAWASDEE birth cohort study in Thailand to investigate prenatal pesticide exposure and child health. She completed her MPH in Epidemiology and
BS in Environmental Health Science at the University of Georgia. She previously trained as an Intramural Research Training Award Fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, where she conducted research on pesticide exposures and respiratory
health in the Agricultural Health Study.

She has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications across environmental health, diabetes, and obesity journals. Her ongoing research with the Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) consortium has identified novel links between PFAS
exposure, lipid dysregulation, weight regain, and metabolic disease progression in adolescents. She was awarded a USC P30 pilot grant to investigate the relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and COVID-19 severity.

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/96910431150?pwd=0mHgpKiXosg6kd7eayKdg0SwafHzmf.1
Meeting ID: 969 1043 1150
Passcode: 306210