Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB)
Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services
National Center for Environmental Health
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ms Selman and the team of experts she leads are responsible for the domestic food and water research activities of the Environmental Health Services Branch. She started and manages the Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net), a collaborative forum of environmental health specialists, epidemiologists, and laboratory professionals who seek to understand the environmental causes of food and waterborne disease and outbreaks. This collaborative forum is comprised of representatives from nine states (CA, CT, GA, IA, MN, NY, OR, RI, TN), three federal agencies (U.S.FDA, USDA, U.S. EPA), and the food industry. Some of its publications and presentations can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/EHSNet/highlights.htm.
Ms Selman’s team also is involved in activities to understand the ecology of watersheds and links to human health, and building the capacity to investigate links between wastewater, groundwater contamination and human health.
A founding member of the Environmental Health Services Branch, Ms Selman came to CDC from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1999. She was an FDA investigator from 1990 to 1999 and was a founding member of FDA’s National Retail Food Steering Committee. She was actively involved in the development of FDA’s Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards , a set of criteria deemed necessary for conducting an effective regulatory food program, and the FDA Retail Food Program Database of Foodborne Illness Risk Factors.
Ms Selman began her public health career as an environmental health specialist with the Mobile County Health Department, Mobile, Alabama in 1978. She has a BS in Animal Science from Mississippi State University and a Masters of Public Health from Emory University.
