Sherry Brandt-Rauf

Sherry Brandt-Rauf serves as a Teaching Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Drexel University, where she bridges academic instruction and real-world policy development. Her work focuses on federal, state, and local environmental/occupational health policy with emphasis on actionable student-driven policy documents addressing current crises.

Her educational foundation includes:

• JD from Columbia University
• MPhil in Sociology from Columbia University
• MA in Sociology from Columbia University
• BA in Sociology from Barnard College

Professor Brandt-Rauf's research critically examines Health Policy and Occupational Health through the lens of Environmental Exposures, Health Disparities, and Public Health Law. She investigates pressing issues including climate change impacts on workers, temporary worker safety, fracking regulations, pesticide exposure reporting, and student food insecurity, consistently translating complex legal-scientific intersections into practical policy frameworks.

Her publication record (2000-2019) reveals an evolution from foundational work on genetic testing ethics to contemporary occupational injury surveillance. Recent studies analyze EMS responder assaults and law enforcement injuries using innovative data linkage methods, while earlier research established critical frameworks for workplace genetic testing ethics. This trajectory demonstrates sustained engagement with emergent occupational health threats through epidemiological rigor and legal analysis.

Though not explicitly detailed in available materials, her pedagogical approach—where students develop implementable policy documents—suggests significant mentorship in training future public health policymakers to address complex environmental health challenges.