Anne Riederer, MS, MSFS, ScD
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
Mentorship
Not available to mentor new students.
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
Selected publications
- Effectiveness of portable HEPA air cleaners on reducing indoor PM 2.5 and NH 3 in an agricultural cohort of children with asthma: A randomized intervention trial
- Probabilistic estimates of prenatal lead exposure at 195 toxic hotspots in low- and middle-income countries
- Acute Poisonings from Synthetic Cannabinoids - 50 U.S. Toxicology Investigators Consortium Registry Sites, 2010-2015
- Associations between metals in residential environmental media and exposure biomarkers over time in infants living near a mining-impacted site
- A method to screen U.S. environmental biomonitoring data for race/ethnicity and income-related disparity
- Urinary cadmium in the 1999-2008 U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)