Jessie E. Poulin, M.P.H. is an Associate Scientist specializing in environmental and occupational health. Ms. Poulin has expertise in epidemiology, biostatistics, and toxicology and has contributed to numerous risk assessment reports and presentations. She has assessed environmental and occupational health effects related to chemicals such as asbestos, lead, mercury, and silica. She has experience in the emerging field of burden of disease assessment and recently completed a document on the environmental burden of disease from mercury. Ms. Poulin is proficient in SAS statistical software and has analyzed data from national health datasets including the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. She graduated from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health of the George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health and Health Services in 2007. Ms. Poulin was granted the Lazlo N. Tauber Scholarship for Public Health and inducted into Delta Omega, the National Honorary Society in Public Health. She currently serves on the board of GWU’s Delta Omega chapter.

Key Project Areas for Ms. Poulin include:

• Health risk assessment.
• Analysis of fatal occupational injuries.
• Burden of disease methodology.
• Evaluation of epidemiologic literature.
• Statistical analysis.

Recent Publications and Presentations:

Jessie Poulin and Herman Gibb . Mercury: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels. World Health Organization, Geneva . In Press.

Gibb HJ, Kozlov K, Centeno JA, Poulin J, Jurgenson V, Kolker A, Conko KM, Landa ER, Panov BS, Panov YB, Xu H (2007). Occupational Mercury Exposure at a Mercury Recycling Facility in Ukraine . In Press.

Jessie E. Poulin (Presenting Author), John P. Sestito, and Katherine L. Hunting. Fatalities in the Landscape and Horticultural Services Industry, 1992 to 2001. Presented at the Baltimore/Washington Area International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and International Society for Exposure Assessment 3rd Annual Joint Workshop. Washington , D.C. , August 17, 2007 .

Herman Gibb , Kostj Koslov, Jessie Poulin , Jose Centeno, Vera Jurgenson , Allan Kolker, Kathryn Conko. Assessment of the Feasibility of Conducting a Health Effects Study in a Mercury-rich Area of Ukraine . Presented at the International Conference on Environmental Epidemiology & Exposure. Paris , France , September 2-6, 2006 .

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Contact info: e-mail jessie.poulin@sciences.com ; phone (571) 527-1708