Elaine M. Faustman BA, PhD, DABT

ELAINE M. FAUSTMAN, Ph.D., DABT is a professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health and directs the Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication. She also directs the Pacific Northwest Center for Human Health and Ocean Studies. Dr. Faustman is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Risk Analysis.

She has served on numerous committees for NIEHS (Division of Extramural Research & Training and the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors) and for the World Health Organization (including Environmental Health Criteria Document Committees for modeling dose-response and children's risk assessment). She has also been involved in National Research Council committees, including the Committee on Spacecraft Exposure Guidelines, Sub Committee for Zinc-Cadmium Sulfide and Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients for the Food and Nutrition Board (IOM) and the Committee on Toxicology. She chaired the Committee on Developmental Toxicology. Dr. Faustman received a PhD in toxicology from Michigan State University.