- Durham, NC
- Environmental Defense Fund, NC Office
Bio
As a health scientist at Environmental Defense Fund, Dr. Paige Varner’s work involves integrating scientific knowledge on environmental health and toxicology to reduce exposures to toxic chemicals and protect public health. This involves promoting just and protective implementation of various laws and policies, such as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and federal- and state-level cumulative impacts policies. Further work involves consideration and promotion of assessing risks to multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors cumulatively to protect communities, particularly those most overburdened and at risk, from unjust contamination. Before joining EDF, Paige was an ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development. Prior to her fellowship, she received her PhD in Environmental Engineering and Toxicology at Duke University where she studied bioremediation of organic contaminants in the environment and contributed as a science consultant to a legal case pertaining to toxic contamination in a community in North Carolina.
