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Regulatory Risk Assessor

Elyssa Arnold, MPH, MEM


Ms. Elyssa Arnold is a Regulatory Risk Assessor in the Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP).

Ms. Arnold focuses primarily on ecological risk assessments including Biological Evaluations and Biological Opinions for endangered species. She previously worked as a biologist and team lead in the Environmental Fate and Effects Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs from 2011 to 2020. From 2020 to 2021, Ms. Arnold worked as the Biosolids Program risk assessment lead in the U.S. EPA Office of Water. Ms. Arnold earned her MPH from the Yale School of Public Health and her MEM from the Yale School of the Environment, both with concentrations in environmental health. She earned her BA in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College.

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