Rate My Professor Jessie Buckley

Jessie P. Buckley, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. She earned a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014, an MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health from George Washington University in 2007, and an AB in Biology and English from Bowdoin College in 2002. Buckley previously held positions at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, including Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Her research focuses on characterizing the health effects of environmental toxicants, with emphasis on exposure assessment of environmental chemicals, methods for estimating effects of exposure mixtures, and environmental influences on cardiometabolic and bone health in children and adolescents. She serves as director of chemical exposure methodology for the Data Analysis Center of the NIH’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program. Buckley received the Teaching Innovation Award from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2025 and the NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award in 2019. Key publications include “Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and bone mineral content in early adolescence: Modification by diet and physical activity” (2024) in Environmental Research and “Associations of prenatal urinary melamine, melamine analogues, and aromatic amines with gestational duration and fetal growth in the ECHO Cohort” (2025) in Environment International. She is a member of the PhD Admissions Committee in the Department of Epidemiology and co-chair of the North America Chapter of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology.