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Sheryl Magzamen

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Sheryl Magzamen is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University and in the Department of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health.  Her primary research focus is understanding the relative contribution of social factors and environmental exposures on childhood chronic disease. Sheryl has worked extensively in the elementary school setting on developing surveillance methods and educational programs for childhood asthma, understanding the role of lead exposure in educational outcomes, and analyzing the role of social culture and indoor environmental quality and the health and performance of students and teachers. She has active collaborations with exposure scientists to develop refined exposure assessment models in community and agricultural settings in studies of childhood and occupational respiratory disease. Sheryl received her doctorate in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 and has been a member of SER since 2004.