Friday, December 2, 2022

Molly Kile is an environmental epidemiologist whose research focuses on understanding how exposures to chemicals influence human health. Her expertise is in conducting population-based environmental health studies and often works with communities that are disproportionately impacted by environmental pollutants. She received her doctoral degree from Harvard School of Public Health in 2006 and is currently a Professor at the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. She is currently the PI on two active NIEHS-funded R01s that are studying the effects of flame retardants on children’s neurocognitive and behavioral growth and private well water stewardship. She is also interim deputy director of the Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research (P30) and the co-PI of the newly formed ASPIRE Center at OSU (P2C) that is focusing on accelerating the adoption of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices that promote children’s environmental health.