Patricia Erickson, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Patricia Erickson, M.P.H., joined the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB) in 2019 as a predoctoral fellow through the NIH Graduate Partnership Program. She earned her Ph.D. from University of Maryland, Baltimore Medical School, in 2024. Her thesis describes the largest and most comprehensive study of the pesticide carbaryl to date. Dr. Erickson noted novel evidence of an association between carbaryl use and increased risk of specific malignancies, including stomach cancer, among both pesticide applicators and their female spouses. Dr. Erickson earned her M.P.H in epidemiology from the George Washington University, Washington, DC. As part of her master’s thesis, she worked with Dr. Bríd Ryan (NCI) on a study that examined ethnic and racial differences in the relationship between aspirin use and non-small cell lung cancer risk and survival.

In OEEB, she is working under the mentorship of Jonathan Hofmann, Ph.D., M.P.H., senior investigator, and Laura Beane Freeman, Ph.D., senior investigator, on projects within the Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect in Agriculture (BEEA) Study and the Agricultural Health Study.