Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Deputy Director
Professor, Rutgers School of Public Health
EOHSI, Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine
Please welcome Dr. Fiedler as the new Regulatory Co-Lead for NJACTS and chair of the RBHS Scientific Review Board, alongside Dr. Celine Gelinas.
Dr. Fiedler is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice in the School of Public Health and the Deputy Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. She was a member of the New Brunswick / Piscataway Health Sciences IRB for 23 years and Chair of the IRB for 11 of those 23 years. She joined the Rutgers Department of Environmental and Community Medicine in 1982 where she developed neurobehavioral methods to evaluate health effects of neurotoxicant exposures.
Through interdisciplinary collaborations, Dr. Fiedler’s research investigates the human health effects of occupational and environmental exposures among adults and children. As the PI of grants funded by NIOSH, DOD, and NIEHS, her research focuses on interactions between complex environmental exposures (e.g., volatile organic compounds) and psychosocial factors (e.g., stress, sex) on symptoms and neurobehavioral function.
Dr. Fiedler has published numerous articles and has served on several NIH study sections including the Fogarty International Research Center.