Jennifer Richmond-Bryant

Bio

Jennifer Richmond-Bryant, PhD, joined the Forestry and Environmental Resources department at North Carolina State University as an Associate Professor of the Practice in 2019 after holding previous positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City University of New York. Her research specializes in human exposure to air pollution with a focus on marginalized communities. She is a project director with the Louisiana State University Superfund Research Program, where she has been conducting a field campaign to assess air pollution and health impacts of emissions from an open burn/open detonation (OBOD) hazardous waste thermal treatment facility in Colfax, LA. Dr. Richmond-Bryant also leads a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Needs Fellowship focused on providing doctoral students with a combination of the natural, physical, and social sciences needed for conducting research focused on environmental justice. Dr. Richmond-Bryant is co-lead of the Environmental Health Disparities Research Interest Group within the Center for Human Health and the Environment. This group is concerned both with providing technical support to community partners and advancing our understanding of interactions between environmental contaminants and social determinants of health, both of which are fundamental to Dr. Richmond-Bryant’s research program.