Swati Rayasam

Swati is a PhD student in Epidemiology at the UW's School of Public Health. She earned her MSc in Global Health and the Environment from the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health and her BS in Biology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Swati is a public health scientist and grassroots organizer working in service of everyday communities to advance their needs. She has worked in both nonprofit and government roles around chemical policy and marginalized communities, most recently at the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights focusing on ensuring the EPA’s implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act protects the health of communities disproportionately impacted by toxic chemical pollution such as BIPOC, low-income populations, incarcerated populations, and people with disabilities. She has expertise in federal and international policy, exposure science, community-guided science, science translation/communication, toxics, infectious disease, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).