Mandy Goldberg, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)
Biography
Mandy Goldberg, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. She earned her M.P.H. from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health & Community Medicine and her Ph.D. in epidemiology from Columbia University.
Dr. Goldberg completed postdoctoral training in the Epidemiology Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Prior to joining Rutgers, she was an independent research scholar in the NIH Intramural Research Program and led the Puberty & Cancer Epidemiology Group within the NIEHS Epidemiology Branch.
Research Interests
Dr. Goldberg’s research focuses on understanding hormonal influences on growth, development and susceptibility to carcinogenesis during critical early-life periods. Her work aims to identify potentially modifiable factors acting through these hormonal pathways to influence the timing of puberty and cancer risk.
Leveraging data from the Infant Feeding and Early Development (IFED) Study, she is investigating how sex steroid concentrations and exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals during minipuberty of infancy influence infant growth and reproductive development. She initiated the IFED Puberty Study (IFED-2), a follow-up study of the former IFED infants as they undergo puberty, to examine the hypothesis that minipuberty is a critical programming period for pubertal development.
Dr. Goldberg conducts complementary research examining how environmental exposures during puberty and other windows of susceptibility affect the risk of breast and other hormone-sensitive cancers