Ethel Schaefer Gilbert MPH, PhD

Ethel S. Gilbert received a B.A. in mathematics from Oberlin College and an M.P.H. and Ph. D. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan. She spent several years as a senior staff scientist at Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where her research focused on epidemiologic studies of nuclear workers and on analyzing data from experimental animal studies and also spent a year at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan. Dr. Gilbert joined the NCI in 1996 as an Expert and received the NIH Merit Award in 2003. Dr. Gilbert is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an honorary member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII Committee on Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation and was also a member of the study group for the 15-country nuclear worker study. Dr. Gilbert became a special volunteer in 2018.