Vickie Boothe who is an epidemiologist and environmental engineer with more than 33 years of public service. Vickie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelor’s Degree in Management/Marketing, and a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from Georgia State University. She is dedicated to improving community health and advancing health equity.  She spent 19 years at the CDC and 14 years at the EPA. In 2019, after retiring from the federal government, she relocated to New Orleans in order to more actively engage and support disparately impacted communities across Louisiana. Her research focuses on health impacts resulting from exposures to traffic emissions and other air pollutants; understanding the role of social determinants in creating community health and health disparities; and evaluating public health and environmental interventions, programs, and policies.

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