Michele  Marcus

Dr. Marcus is Professor of Epidemiology, Environmental Health and Pediatrics. She has over 25 years experience conducting large epidemiologic cohort studies. Dr. Marcus received her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology at Columbia University as well as completing a fellowship in Neuroepidemiology.  As Assistant Director of the Center for Health Research for Kaiser Permanente Georgia, she established a biobank and served on the Leadership Team for Kaiser’s National Biobanking efforts. She has been invited to speak at national and regional IRB organization meetings concerning ethical issues of biobanking and studying genetic information. She has received continuous NIH funding for more than 25 years as PI of a long-term follow-up study of individuals exposed to toxicant-contaminated food known as the PBB Research Registry. This cohort study now contains multiple generations and is guided by a community-academic partnership. She has published extensively on multi-generational health effects utilizing data from the PBB Registry and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Dr. Marcus has conducted several NIH-funded studies evaluating psychosocial stress and ergonomic stress as predictors of adverse musculoskeletal health outcomes and a randomized clinical trial of an ergonomic intervention. She has contributed to the scientific literature in multiple areas of cohort research from recruitment and community engagement to data collection and analyses.

Dr. Marcus has served on federal expert panels reviewing health effects of electromagnetic fields, bisphenol A, phthalates, gene/environment interactions and service in the Persian Gulf War. She served on the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Committees on dioxin exposure among Vietnam Veterans and Research needs following the Ohio train derailment. She currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Trade Center Health Study.

Dr. Marcus has served in many additional leadership positions including Director of Graduate Studies and Interim Chair for the Department of Epidemiology, Co-Director of the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, and founding member of the Center for Outcomes Research and Public Health in the Department of Pediatrics. Her research on multi-generational health effects has been recognized with awards from the CDC and the EPA. She served on the Leadership Team and as lead epidemiologist for the study design and recruitment for the Emory Healthy Aging and Emory Healthy Brain Study.