Dr. Woodruff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco and the Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. She has extensive expertise in environmental health research and public policy, with a particular emphasis on early-life development. Her research areas include perinatal health effects from air pollution, developing the first national characterization of air toxics across the US, children’s health risks, and environmental health indicators. She has authored numerous scientific publications. She was previously at the US EPA, where she was a senior scientist and policy advisor in the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation. She is an Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Health Perspectives.

She received her Ph.D. and M.P.H. in the environmental health sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed a Pew Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies.