拉奎尔席尔瓦

Raquel is an environmental health scientist with a diverse background in environmental engineering, 管理, 和政策. With more than 15 years of experience, she provides support to different public sector clients in systematic literature reviews of toxicological and epidemiological studies, the development of flagship reports on animal toxicology studies of different chemicals, 数据分析, 项目管理.

Raquel worked for several years in quality and environmental 管理 and business excellence, and completed an MBA program with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation 管理. 她有博士学位。.D. in 环境al Sciences and Engineering from the University of 北卡罗莱纳 at Chapel Hill. Her doctoral research involved global assessments of the impact of air pollution and climate change on human health, including air quality modeling and spatial 数据分析.

完成博士学位后.D., she conducted air quality simulations for the UNC Institute for the 环境 and climate and health vulnerability mapping for the 北卡罗莱纳 Department of Health and Human 服务. Raquel’s postdoctoral research focused on eco-health and exposure to chemicals in consumer products. She conducted literature reviews and statistical 数据分析, developed a survey module on subjective factors influencing the personal experience of nature, and collaborated on a pilot study of residential exposure, including home visits to conduct participant training and support video self-ethnography on risk perception.

自2018年以来, as a lead health scientist at ICF, Raquel has managed and contributed to several projects for the U.S. 环境保护署, the National Institute of 环境al Health Sciences, 以及其他联邦机构. She provides support to systematic literature reviews, and the development of evidence maps, to characterize the scientific literature relevant to exposure to different chemicals, including the definition of the search strategy and development of the literature review protocol, 文献筛选, evaluation of study quality and risk of bias, 数据提取, 可视化的发展, and preparation of text synthesis. 另外, she supports the National Toxicology Program coordinating an international workgroup responsible for developing a tool for risk of bias assessment. Raquel is an experienced data analyst, 作家, and reviewer of scientific manuscripts and technical reports.