Dr. Alexandra White is a Stadtman Investigator in the Epidemiology Branch in the Division of Intramural Research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Science where she leads the Environment and Cancer Epidemiology Group. She received her MSPH in 2012 and her PhD in 2015 from the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. White is a Co-investigator of the Sister Study, a large prospective cohort of women in the US who are followed for breast cancer and other health outcomes. Her research focuses on identifying environment and lifestyle risk factors for breast and reproductive cancers and understanding the biologic mechanisms that allow cancer to develop. Dr. White uses geospatial data to study widespread environmental exposures such as air pollution and focuses on cancer risks associated with chemicals found in personal care and other everyday products.
