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Lynn Goldman is dean of the School of Public Health and Health Services at The George Washington University. Before joining GWU in 2010, she was a professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to that, Goldman served as assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, where she was responsible for national implementation of chemical and pesticide safety and pollution prevention laws. She also worked at the California Department of Public Health, where she headed the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control. Goldman serves on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund and is a member of both the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Sciences and Toxicology. She holds a B.S. in conservation of natural resources and an M.S. in health and medical science from the University of California, Berkeley; an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University; and an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco.