Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Sara Lupolt, PhD ’21, MPH, works to improve the art and practice of exposure assessment while tackling a wide variety of environmental health and food system challenges.
Research Interests
exposure science; food systems; risk assessment; risk science; public health; occupational health; lead; metals; exposure factors; soil; urban agriculture; agriculture; agricultural workers; biosolids; regulatory policy; chemical residues in food; drinking water; policy; TSCA; environmental justice; chemicals; toxics;
Experiences & Accomplishments
As an exposure scientist, my research seeks to bring a critical and constructive eye to improve the art and practice of exposure assessment to tackle a wide variety of wicked environmental health and food system challenges. My dissertation and postdoctoral research focused on developing innovative methods for estimating exposure to soil among agricultural workers (dissertation) and children (postdoctoral).
Honors & Awards
CHARMED Center Career Mentoring Award, Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2023
Doctoral Student Excellence in Baltimore Public Health Practice Award, Johns Hopkins Office of Public Health Practice and Training, 2021
CLF-Lerner Fellowship, Center for a Livable Future, 2016-2021
Select Publications
Most recent publications
Lupolt SN, Agnew J, Burke TA, Kennedy RD, Nachman KE. Key considerations for assessing soil ingestion exposures among agricultural workers. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-021-00339-z
Lupolt SN, Santo RE, Kim, BF, Green CE, Codling EE, Rule A, Chen R, Scheckel K, Strauss M, Cocke A, Little N, Rupp V, Viqueira R, Illuminati J, Epp Schmidt A, Nachman KE. 2021. The Safe Urban Harvests study: A community-driven cross-sectional assessment of metals in soil, irrigation water, and produce from urban farms and gardens in Baltimore, MD. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP9431
Lupolt SN, Santo RE, Kim BF, Burke TA, Nachman KE. Urban soil safety policies: the next frontier for mitigating lead exposures and promoting sustainable food production. GeoHealth. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GH000615.
Lupolt SN, Agnew J, Ramachandran G, Burke TA, Kennedy RD, Nachman KE. A qualitative characterization of meso-activity fators to estimate soil exposure for agricultural workers. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. 2022. https//doi.org/10.1038/s41370-022-00484-z.