About Meghan's Work

Meghan Lynch is an Assoicate at Abt Associates and specializes in human health risk assessment for a variety of substances including pesticides, air and drinking water contaminants. Dr. Lynch also has expertise in reviewing and utilizing the toxicological and epidemiologic literature for environmental policy and benefit-cost analysis. She has several years of professional experience in brownfields redevelopment, including reviewing the human health risk assessments for sites, the field work necessary to clean-up and develop a site and the many policy issues surrounding the funding and regulation of brownfields redevelopment. The co-author of several published journal studies and is a patent holder, Dr. Lynch has also worked as a chemist in the pharmaceutical industry. She has a BA in chemistry from the College of the Holy Cross, and an MPH and a DSc. from the Boston University School of Public Health