Background
She was born in 1951 in Galveston, Texas, United States.
She was born in 1951 in Galveston, Texas, United States.
She is an American public health physician, a pediatrician and an epidemiologist. Formerly a professor of environmental health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health she is perhaps best known for her role in helping craft the Food Protection Acting passed by Congress in 1996, the first national environmental law to explicitly require measures to protect children from pesticides. Goldman is a graduate of the University of California - Berkeley College of Natural Resources, University of California - San Francisco School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In 1993, Goldman was appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate as Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, becoming the first physician to serve in this capacity.
Goldman has served on numerous national boards and expert committees including the Committee on Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee and the National Research Council.