CLF Announces Living for the Future Scholar

The Center for a Livable Future has named Gila Neta as its first Living for the Future Scholar. The Living for the Future Scholarship provides support for JHU doctoral students pursuing scientific research related to a range of issues that are central to CLF’s Living for the Future Program. Relevant topics of scientific inquiry include: water quality and availability; competing demands for water; the food system’s contribution to climate change; sustainability initiatives within higher education; and the impacts of toxic chemicals on ecological and human health. 

Gila is a doctoral candidate in the Epidemiology Department's Environmental and Occupational Division at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to coming to Hopkins, she received her Master's in Public Policy and worked as a policy analyst advocating for more equitable and sustainable international trade and environmental policies. Her dissertation research focuses on the public health consequences of pesticides. In particular, she is investigating the effects of prenatal exposures to persistent and non-persistent insecticides in a cohort of babies born in Baltimore as part of the THREE Study (Tracking Health Related to Environmental Exposures). She is exploring the risk factors for exposure to pesticides and examining the associations between levels of pesticides in cord blood and the effects on fetal growth and development and on the immune system. Her dissertation advisor is Dr. Lynn Goldman, professor in Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology. Her academic advisor is Dr. Jonathan Samet, chair of the Department of Epidemiology.