Maida Galvez, MD, MPH

Dr. Galvez is a pediatrician and Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and the Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Galvez works to translate emerging research into programs and policies that prevent and reduce environmental exposures for children, their families, and their communities. She is Co-Director of the New York State Children’s Environmental Health Center (NYSCHECK)—the first state-wide, publicly funded model for children’s environmental health clinical services in the United States. Since 2006, she has also served as Director of the Region 2 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU), a US Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) program that provides environmental health services to communities in New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. She is also the Community Engagement Core Director for the Mount Sinai Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program and the Mount Sinai NIEHS P30 Center for Health and Environment Across the Lifespan (Mount Sinai Heals).