Devon Payne-Sturges, DrPH is the Assistant Center Director for Human Health U.S Environmental Protection  Agency’s National Center for Environmental Research. She is responsible for conducting strategic research planning and directing NCER’s approximately $20 million human health research program. She serves as primary NCER contact on human health research for interactions with the EPA Office of Research and Development’s Human Health National Program Director, EPA Program Offices, Regions, ORD Centers/Laboratories on Program Reviews, Research Planning-Research Coordinating Teams, and Multi-Year Plans, including Research Strategy/Priority Setting. Her areas of research include use of exposure biomonitoring for policy analysis, risk assessment, environmental health indicator development, children’s environmental health and environmental health of minority populations. Ms. Payne-Sturges was recently appointed to U.S. EPA’s Risk Assessment Forum and is serving on the Cumulative Risk Assessment Tech Panel and as chapter lead for Agency’s exposure assessment guidelines focusing on exposures of vulnerable and susceptible populations. She is also Co-Chair of Environmental Justice Technical Guidance workgroup on developing technical guidance on incorporating environmental justice concerns in Agency rule making activities. She is EPA’s representative on the interagency Federal Collaboration on Health Disparities Research (FCHDR) executive committee. She possesses Master of Public Health and Doctor of Public Health degrees in environmental health sciences from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health. Prior to joining U.S. EPA, Ms. Payne-Sturges served as Assistant Commissioner for Environmental Health with the Baltimore City Health Department.