Lauren Baehner

My work is focused on the Women Workers Biomonitoring Collaborative, and I support other projects in the lab. Prior to joining the S/HE lab, I was a research scientist with the Biomonitoring California program at the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) where I contributed to both community-focused and statewide surveillance biomonitoring studies. There, my work included improving the participant experience and reporting results back to participants at the individual and study level, data analysis on exposure to metals, and I also supported work and analysis on PFASs and environmental phenols. Also at CDPH, I coordinated a mercury exposure reduction program that provided grants to community-based organizations for education on exposure to mercury from fish consumption in the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta. Additionally, I have experience in community health. I worked as a program evaluator for a community health clinic supporting several grant funded mental health programs and forming an Evaluation Advisory Board with Native and Indigenous families using participatory methods. I also worked with a pay-for-performance program that supported Medi-cal community-based clinics and medical groups in San Francisco to improve system and health outcomes.