Rebecca Fry, Ph.D. is the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor in Children’s Environmental Health and Interim Chair at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering.  Dr. Fry is the founding Director of the Institute for Environmental Health Solutions (IEHS) at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Director of the UNC Superfund Research Program. Dr. Fry trained at William Smith College (BS), Tulane University (MS and PhD) and Yale University in Biological Sciences. This was followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship in environmental health sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is an expert in the field of environmental health, with unique research in the area of epigenetics and toxicogenomics. A major focus of her laboratory is to identify mechanisms underlying the deleterious impacts of toxic exposures during the prenatal period with a focus on the epigenome and developmental origins of health and disease. Her group has identified epigenetic mechanisms that relate toxic substances to pregnancy complications, children’s health, and cancer outcomes. Dr. Fry’s laboratory uses transdisciplinary approaches including human population-based research, cell culture-based research and mouse model-based research  to refine the understanding of chemical exposure and toxicity. Dr. Fry’s lab has published on a host of toxic substances including but not limited to acetaminophen, arsenic, cadmium, disinfection byproducts, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Dr. Fry has participated in advisory committees and expert panels, including the committee for the National Academies of Science (NAS) National Research Council for the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) review of inorganic arsenic, a reviewer for the cancer and non-cancer risk assessment of arsenic in food by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and a reviewer and committee member for the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and most recently external advisor to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).