Anne Riederer

Clinical Associate Professor

Email: anneried@uw.edu

Office: 301-C, Roosevelt One Building

Expertise: Clean Air, Clean Water, Safe Food, Chemical hazards, Children's Health, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Pollution, Risk Assessment, Toxicology

MS, MSFS, ScD

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About

Anne M. Riederer, MS, MSFS, ScD is an environmental health scientist focused on assessing exposures of young children and pregnant women to heavy metals, pesticides, and other environmental neurotoxicants. Before moving to Seattle, she was: American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (2010-2012) hosted by Dr. Paul Anastas, EPA Assistant Administrator of the Office of Research and Development; Research Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Global Environmental Health Program (2004-2010), Emory University (Atlanta, GA), and; Senior Research Associate (1991-1998), Hagler Bailly Consulting (Arlington, VA and Manila, Philippines). She currently serves as technical advisor to Pure Earth/Blacksmith Institute (New York, NY), collaborating research scientist with the American College of Medical Toxicology, and holds adjunct faculty appointments at Emory and George Washington University (Washington, DC).

She regularly teaches courses in DEOHS, as well as serving on committees and supporting research in the department.

Education

ScD, MS, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MSFS, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
BSc, Brown University

Affiliations

Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University

Affiliate Assistant Professor

Anne M. Riederer, MS, MSFS, ScD is an environmental health scientist focused on assessing exposures of young children and pregnant women to heavy metals, pesticides, and other environmental neurotoxicants. Before moving to Seattle, she was: American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (2010-2012) hosted by Dr. Paul Anastas, EPA Assistant Administrator of the Office of Research and Development; Research Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Global Environmental Health Program (2004-2010), Emory University (Atlanta, GA), and; Senior Research Associate (1991-1998), Hagler Bailly Consulting (Arlington, VA and Manila, Philippines). She currently serves as technical advisor to Blacksmith Institute (New York, NY), holds adjunct faculty appointments at Emory and George Washington University (Washington, DC), and serves as elected Treasurer of the International Society of Exposure Science.

Research Interests

Exposure assessment (water, food, house dust, soil; biomarkers)
Neurodevelopmental outcomes of environmental contaminant exposures
Effects of contaminated site remediation on children’s environmental health
Global environmental health

Mentorship

Not available to mentor new students in autumn 2020.

Research

Research Interests:

Exposure assessment (water, food, house dust, soil, air; biomarkers)
Neurodevelopmental outcomes of environmental contaminant exposures
Interventions to improve children’s environmental health
Global environmental and occupational health

Projects:

Air Pollution Exposures in Early Life and Brain Development in Children (ABC) Study (with S. Benki-Nugent and collaborators from UW Global Health and University of Nairobi)
Home Air In Agriculture Pediatric Intervention Trial (with C. Karr and collaborators from UW, KDNA, and Yakima Valley Farmworkers Clinic)
Kenya Healthy Home Healthy Brain Project (with S. Benki-Nugent and collaborators from UW Global Health and University of Nairobi)
Environmental determinants of metals exposures in infants living near an abandoned mining site (with A. Zota, George Washington University, and collaborators from Harvard School of Public Health, Yale, and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine)
Burden of disease from prenatal lead exposure near toxic sites in low- and middle-income countries (with L. Zajac, P. Landrigan and collaborators from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine)
Validation and pilot testing of methods for assessing infants’ dietary pesticide exposure (with D. Barr, P.B. Ryan and collaborators from Emory University)
In utero pesticide exposures and neurodevelopmental outcomes in a prospective birth cohort from Northern Thailand (with D. Barr, P.B. Ryan and collaborators from Emory and Chiang Mai University)

Publications

Recent publications

See publications list

Projects

Environmental determinants of metals exposures in infants living near an abandoned mining site (with A. Zota, George Washington University, and collaborators from Harvard School of Public Health, Yale, and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine)

Primary school educational attainment among children living near toxic sites in low- and middle-income countries (with A. Preker, D. Jack and collaborators, Columbia University)

Burden of disease from prenatal lead exposure near toxic sites in low- and middle-income countries (with L. Zajac, R. Kobrosly and collaborators from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine)

Intervention to reduce children’s blood lead levels in Rudnaya Pristan, Russian Far East (with P. Sharov, Far Eastern Environmental Health Fund and Blacksmith Institute)

Workshop on reducing environmental health threats to children in artisanal industry communities, Hanoi (with collaborators from University of Washington, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Blacksmith Institute, Centre for Environment and Community Development, National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, and Vietnam Environment Agency)

Validation and pilot testing of methods for assessing infants’ dietary pesticide exposure (with D. Barr, P.B. Ryan and collaborators from Emory University)

In utero pesticide exposures and neurodevelopmental outcomes in a prospective birth cohort from Northern Thailand (with D. Barr, P.B. Ryan and collaborators from Emory and Chiang Mai University)

Children’s dietary exposures to neonicotinoid pesticides (with C.S. Lu and collaborators from Harvard School of Public Health)

In the news

How do the smells of nature benefit our health?

May 16, 2024 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Anne Riederer | View

Teaching Interests

Environmental and Occupational Health in a Sustainable World (George Washington University on-line MPH Program)

Online Course in Research Writing: Environmental Health (Blacksmith Institute and AuthorAID/International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications)

Contact information

anne.riederer@gmail.com

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