Marina S. Moses DrPH, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
School of Public Health and Health Services
George Washington University
Marina S. Moses is an Assistant Professor at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She is the Director of the Doctoral Program and the Practicum Coordinator. Recently, she had been working with closely with Arlington County, Virginia in the area of public health preparedness. In the fall of 2004, she assisted the School Health Department in developing and presenting a community-based public health training module for public school staff. The module is designed to inform school staff about community actions in the event of any kind of public health emergency. She has also assisted the health department in the development of training materials on public health preparedness for all health department staff. Dr. Moses was the recipient of the 2005 Pfizer Scholar in Public Health Award and is conducting a needs assessment for parents in Arlington to enhance community public health preparedness. In addition, Dr. Moses is part of a team at the Center of Risk Science and Public Health in the SPHHS assisting the District of Columbia’s Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) address public health issues.
Previously, Dr. Moses held senior positions in the Environmental Management Division of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and in the Superfund Program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At the Department of Energy, she devised a qualitative framework to assess hazardous and nuclear risks from DOE sites and helped establish a long-term research program on “transformational” science. Prior to her experience at DOE, she served as a human health risk assessor in the New York City Office of EPA’s Superfund Program. In that position, she developed site-specific human health risk assessments, negotiated with businesses identified as “responsible parties” at Superfund sites, met with community members, and developed national guidance and policies in human health risk assessment. During her years in New York City, she also held an appointment as Assistant Adjunct Clinical Professor of Public Health in the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where she taught a graduate course in hazardous waste management.