Dr. Asa Bradman

Asa Bradman is an expert in exposure assessment and epidemiology focusing on occupational and environmental exposures to pregnant women, children, and farmworkers living in agricultural communities. Dr. Bradman is currently a professor of Public Health and  Department Chair at the University of California, Merced. In 1998 he co-founded the Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH) at UC Berkeley and in 2020 Bradman joined the faculty at UC Merced. Bradman leads exposure and epidemiologic studies examining pesticides, flame retardants, metals, emerging pollutants, VOCs, air quality and other contaminants. He participates in extensive community outreach and education and interfaces with other scientists, state and federal agencies, policy makers and industry. He is past member and Chair of the California Biomonitoring Scientific Guidance Panel (appointed by Governors Schwarzenegger in 2007, Brown in 2013), and in 2017 he was appointed to a five-year term on the USDA National Organic Standards Board. Early in his career, Bradman harvested grapefruits and apples for export, worked on a chicken farm, and was the produce manager for a small grocery store. View Dr. Bradman’s UC Merced profile here.