Maya Spaur, Ph.D., Sc.M.

Dr. Maya Spaur joined DCEG as a postdoctoral fellow in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB) in June 2023. She earned a Ph.D. in environmental health sciences at Columbia University, New York, New York, and an Sc.M. in environmental health and engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Spaur’s dissertation research focused on drinking water arsenic and uranium exposures and their associations with urinary biomarkers and diabetes in several U.S. study populations.

In OEEB, Dr. Spaur is studying drinking water exposures to metals/metalloids, disinfection byproducts, and inorganic contaminants and associated cancer risk in the Agricultural Health Study and the California Teachers Study, under the mentorship of Mary H. Ward, Ph.D., senior investigator.