Caroline N. Pruitt, M.P.H.

Caroline Pruitt joined DCEG as a postbaccalaureate fellow in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB) in June 2023. She earned a B.S. in public health from Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina in 2020 and an M.P.H. with applied epidemiology concentration from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2023. 

In DCEG, Ms. Pruitt is developing epidemiological expertise in the areas of environmental exposures, health disparities, and cancer with an emphasis on using geographic information systems (GIS) for exposure assessment and conducting analyses of cancer risk, under the mentorship of Jessica Madrigal, Ph.D., M.S., Independent Research Scholar, and Rena Jones, Ph.D., M.S., tenure-track investigator. In addition, Ms. Pruitt is working on epidemiologic risk analyses to evaluate environmental contaminants as etiologic risk factors for different cancers (e.g., lung and breast). She is also contributing to exposure assessments, with the aim of understanding and developing metrics to capture constructs like poverty, segregation, and access to community-level resources.