Mandy Goldberg Joins the Rutgers School of Public Health

Mandy Goldberg, Ph.D, M.P.H., has joined the Rutgers School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology as an assistant professor.

Goldberg’s research focuses on understanding hormonal influences on growth, development, and susceptibility to carcinogenesis during critical early-life periods. Her work seeks to identify potentially modifiable factors that act through hormonal pathways to influence the timing of puberty and future cancer risk.

“I am thrilled to join the Rutgers School of Public Health and become a part of this vibrant and collaborative community,” said Goldberg. “Through my research focusing on critical periods of development in early life, I look forward to contributing to the school’s vision of achieving a world in which all people have the opportunity to reach their full health potential.”

Currently, Goldberg is using data from the Infant Feeding and Early Development (IFED) Study to examine how sex steroid concentrations and exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals during infancy’s minipuberty phase influence growth and reproductive development. She also launched the IFED Puberty Study (IFED-2), a follow-up of the original cohort, to test whether minipuberty is a critical programming window for pubertal development.

In addition, her research explores how environmental exposures during puberty and other windows of susceptibility may impact the risk of breast and other hormone-sensitive cancers.

“I am excited for Dr. Goldberg to join the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology,” said Jason Roy, professor and chair of the Rutgers School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. “Her innovative research program has the potential to both enhance our understanding of the impact of exposures during development and also lead to reductions in cancer risk.”

Goldberg 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. She 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.