Dr. Ashley J. Malin is an Assistant Professor and Co-director of the Certificate in Psychiatric Epidemiology Program in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Florida. She holds, from York University, a BSc (Hons.) majoring in Psychology, as well as an MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology. After earning her PhD, she completed postdoctoral fellowships in Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as well as in Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Dr. Malin’s research program focuses on examining impacts of environmental toxicant exposures and nutrition on health outcomes. She was awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NIH/NIEHS to examine potential effects of early life fluoride exposure on neurobehavioral and neuroendocrinological functioning among children in North America. She has also published studies on impacts of early life nutrition on child neurodevelopment, as well as on methods for assessing adequacy of daily nutrient intake.
Dr. Sarah L McKune is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Global Health and the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. She holds a B.A. in French and Sociology from Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, and earned a Master’s in Public Health from Emory University in 2002. She completed a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Ecology at the University of Florida’s School for Natural Resources and the Environment in 2012 and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow for a collaborative effort between UF and the CGIAR’s collaborative research program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS). Dr. McKune joined PHHP in 2013 as the Director of Public Health Programs, a position in which she ran the campus and online MPH and Public Health Certificate programs for the College. In 2016, she joined the Department of Environmental and Global Health in a joint appointment with the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. She also serves as the Health and Human Nutrition Cross Cutting Theme leader for the USAID Feed the Future Livestock System Innovation Laboratory, working with an interdisciplinary team of scientists to improve the nutrition of children under five and pregnant and lactating women through increased consumption of animal source foods.
