Paige Tolbert
Professor Emeritus
Emeritus Professor
Professor Emeritus, Environmental Health
Former O. Wayne Rollins Chair of Environmental Health, Retired
Dr. Tolbert has a twenty-year career of research, teaching and service in environmental epidemiology. She has experience in a wide range of environmental epidemiology, from intensive molecular lab-based studies to large cohort studies. She has studied carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, pesticides, water pollution, and most recently the pulmonary, cardiac and reproductive health effects of ambient air pollution. The air pollution work is encompassed by a collection of studies referred to as the Studies of Particles and Health in Atlanta (SOPHIA), supported by multiple NIH R01s and other grants in the past ten years, and recently has culminated in the award of an EPA Clean Air Research Center, an $8M five-year collaboration with Georgia Tech. She also directs a training program in environmental epidemiology (NIOSH T01). Service activities have included numerous expert panels and grant reviews, culminating most recently in being named to the EPA’s chartered Science Advisory Board, the agency’s primary source of guidance on priorities and future directions. Dr. Tolbert has a deep commitment to advancing the professional development of those at the early stages of their careers in this field, including students, post-docs and junior faculty.
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta , GA 30322
Rollins School of Public Health
Email: ptolber@sph.emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Air Pollution
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology
Education
- AB 1979, Harvard College
- MSPH 1986, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
- PhD 1989, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Courses Taught
- EH 597R: Directed Study
- EH 599R: Thesis
Affiliations & Activities
USEPA Chartered Science Advisory Board, 2009-pres.
Director, Rollins SPH Environ & Occ Epidemiology Joint MSPH Program, 1993-pres.
USEPA STAR Grant Review Panel, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008 (Rapporteur), 2010
NIH Study Sections (ad hoc): OSH, 1994; EDC-2, 2000; ZRG1 PSE-J58R, ZRG1 PSE-C58R, 2009
Children’s Environmental Health Recognition Award, USEPA, 2006
Special Emphasis Panel, NIH, 2004, 2005, 2012, NIOSH, 2005
National Center for Environmental Health Endocrine Disruptors Leadership Panel, 1995-2001
Alice Hamilton Award for Excellence in Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 1999
Publications
- Winquist A, Kirrane E, Klein M, Strickland M, Darrow LA, Sarnat SE, Gass K, Mulholland J, Russell A, Tolbert P, 2014, Joint effects of ambient air pollutants on pediatric asthma emergency department visits in Atlanta, 1998-2004. , Epidemiology, 25, 666-73
- Strickland MJ, Klein M, Flanders WD, Chang HH, Mulholland JA, Tolbert PE, Darrow LA, 2014, Modification of the effect of ambient air pollution on pediatric asthma emergency visits: susceptible subpopulations. , Epidemiology, 25, 843-50
- , 2013, Tolbert Named Rollins Professor of Environmental Health, Public Health Magazine, ,
- Darrow LA, Hess J, Rogers CA, Tolbert PE, Klein M, Sarnat SE. , 2012, Ambient pollen concentrations and emergency department visits for asthma and wheeze., Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 130, 630-638
- Paige Tolbert, 2011, Rollins/Georgia Tech receive $8 million to study air pollution, , ,
- Flanders WD, Klein M, Darrow LA, Strickland MJ, Sarnat SA, Sarnat JA, Waller LA, Winquist A, Tolbert PE. , 2011, A method for detection of residual confounding in spatial and other observational studies., Epidemiology, 22, 823-826
- Peel JL, Klein M, Flanders WD, Mulholland JA, Freed G, Tolbert PE., 2011, Ambient air pollution and apnea and bradycardia in high-risk infants on home monitors., Environmental Health Perspectives, 119, 1321-1327
- Tinker SC, Moe CL, Klein M, Flanders WD, Uber J, Amirtharajah A, Singer P, Tolbert PE., 2010, Drinking water turbidity and emergency department visits for gastrointestinal illness in Atlanta, 1993-2004., Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 20, 19-28
- Sagiv Sk, Thurston SW, Bellinger DC, Tolbert PE, Altshul LM, Korrick SA, 2010, Prenatal organochlorine exposure and behaviors associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in school-aged children., American Journal of Epidemiology, 171, 593-601
- Strickland MJ, Darrow LA, Klein M, Flanders WD, Sarnat JA, Waller LA, Sarnat SE, Mulholland JA, Tolbert PE., 2010, Short-term associations between ambient air pollutants and pediatric asthma emergency department visits., American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 182, 307-16
- Darrow LA, Klein M, Flanders WD, Waller L, Correa A, Marcus M, Mulholland JA, Russell AG, Tolbert PE., 2009, Ambient air pollution and preterm birth: a time-series analysis., Epidemiology, 20, 689-98
- Paige Tolbert, 2008, Ecology and Public Health, , ,
- Tolbert, PE., 2007, Invited commentary: Heterogeneity of particulate matter health risks. , American Journal of Epidemiology, 166, 889-891