Report on Carcinogens

Bevin Blake, Ph.D. is a Staff Scientist in the Integrative Health Assessments Branch (IHAB) at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences with the Report on Carcinogens (RoC) group. She conducts hazard evaluations and provides toxicological expertise for the Report on Carcinogens (RoC), a congressionally mandated report that identifies substances or exposure circumstances that may pose a cancer hazard to human health. 

Prior to joining DTT in 2026, Blake worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where she contributed toxicology expertise in both human health risk assessment and research-based roles in the Office of Research and Development and the Office of Water. Blake led research projects evaluating the reproductive and developmental toxicity of per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) and contributed to toxicological assessments on metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, and PFAS. 

Blake received her Ph.D. in toxicology and environmental medicine from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her dissertation research utilized transdisciplinary science to evaluate the human health effects associated with exposure to PFAS, with a focus on gestational exposure and placental toxicity. She went on to receive postdoctoral training at the NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. EPA where she received human health risk assessment training in the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program. Her current research interests include reproductive and developmental toxicity, developmental origins of health and disease, placental toxicity and placental origins of disease, and the integration of transdisciplinary tools into research and risk assessment, including new approach methodologies.