Beth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the University at Albany School of Public Health, State University of New York. She was previously a postdoctoral associate at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, affiliated with the Duke Global Health Institute, and the Glendadore and Howard L Pim Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Change at Johns Hopkins University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Beth’s research interests are in the use of geospatial methods to understand the link between landscapes and health, with particular interest in issues related to industrial food animal production, climate and health, population-health-environment interactions, land use change, environmental justice, and urban environmental health.  Her current work is regionally focused in the Peruvian Amazon and Beth has also worked on research projects in Ecuador, Brazil, The Netherlands, Denmark and the United States. Beth earned her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  She earned a Master’s of Environmental Science and a Master’s of Public Health in Environmental Health from Yale University and a Bachelor’s in Geology from Vassar College.