Yulia Carroll, MD, PhD

Senior Medical Officer, National Center for Environmental Health and ATSDR, CDC

Yulia Carroll serves as a senior medical officer at the Office of Science at the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), where she advises on various scientific issues and more recently has been assisting with the development of the noise-induced hearing loss initiative. Dr. Carroll started her CDC career as an EIS officer at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 2007, where she led investigations into emerging work related diseases. She then worked as the Division epidemiologist at the ATSDR Division for Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, where she assisted in the development of toxicological profiles, exposure level recommendations, and field investigations.

Prior to joining the CDC, Dr. Carroll worked as a research scientist at the University of Cincinnati Center for Health Related Aerosol Studies, where she set up a laboratory developing new methods for analyzing microbial samples. She received her PhD in Environmental and Occupational Health from the University of Cincinnati, and her MD from the Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria. Dr. Carroll has done research in the area of public health epidemiology and prevention since 1996, holds numerous awards and grants and has authored over 30 publications.