
Much of the work carried out by DTT is in support of the National Toxicology Program (NTP), an interagency partnership of the Food and Drug Administration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and NIEHS.
Report on Carcinogens
Sabah M. Quraishi, Ph.D. is a biologist in the Integrative Health Assessments Branch (IHAB) of the Division of Translational Toxicology (DTT) at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences with the Report on Carcinogens (RoC) group. Dr. Quraishi provides expertise in environmental epidemiology.
Prior to joining IHAB, Dr. Quraishi served as a Science Editor for Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) at NIEHS. There, Dr. Quraishi handled submissions and publications related to epidemiology and exposure science, where she provided expertise on the relevance and scientific rigor of potential publications and provided scientific and technical reviews of submitted research. Dr. Quraishi was part of the team that launched the Journal of Health and Pollution, that focused on publishing research from low resourced areas.
Dr. Quraishi’s research work focuses on air pollution epidemiology. Prior to joining NIEHS, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, where her research focused on characterizing air pollution exposures and health effects including cardiovascular disease in a pooled cohorts project working with several national cohort studies. She also worked with the ECHO PATHWAYS project on studies involving air pollution and early-life outcomes; her graduate research focused on fertility and pregnancy. Additionally, Dr. Quraishi has studied cancer outcomes in relationship to heavy metal and pesticide exposures while at the University of Washington and as an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute. She has also taught several courses on epidemiologic methods and environmental epidemiology.
Dr. Quraishi received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Washington, her M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and her B.A. in Biology from Bryn Mawr College.