Dr. Beate Ritz
M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Ritz holds co-appointments in Environmental Health Sciences and Neurology at the UCLA, School of Medicine.
Her primary research interests are the effects of occupational and environmental exposures (air pollution and pesticides) on neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodegenerative diseases; reproductive outcomes and cancers. Her lab has developed Geographic Information System (GIS) based tools to assess effects of long-term pesticide and air pollution exposures in California.
She serves as co-director of the UCLA Center for Studies of Parkinson’s Disease (CSPD). In the past two decades, she served on numerous National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine (IOM) committees including on Gulf War Illness and on Risk Assessment in the 21st Century. She is the 2009 award recipient for Excellence in Research from the American Parkinson’s Disease Association and the 2007 Robert M. Zweig M.D. Memorial Award (Clean Air Award) from the California South Coast Air Quality Management District.
She currently serves as a member of Cal-EPA Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants. Dr. Ritz is the 2017/18 President-Elect/President of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).
