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Ms. Sheila McCarthy is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Managing Scientist in Exponent’s Health Sciences Center for Public Health and Industrial Hygiene. Ms. McCarthy is experienced in the fields of industrial hygiene and risk assessment involving potential exposures to fibers, pesticides, metals, organic, and inorganic compounds. As a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Ms. McCarthy manages both small and large-scale site assessments. Her experience includes performing indoor air quality evaluations and conducting historical and quantitative exposure assessment in support of site-specific risk assessments. As a CIH, Ms. McCarthy has conducted exposure assessments for both occupational and environmental settings. In these settings, she has developed and implemented sampling methodologies and evaluated a number of agents including fibers, metals, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, bioareosols, mold, and noise. She recently completed a historical exposure assessment that required the evaluation of thousands of industrial hygiene sampling reports, for the purpose of developing a job exposure matrix (JEM) that provided 8-hr time-weighted average (TWA) exposures for various occupations involving asbestos-containing products. Her work has also included assessments of indoor air quality within concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Prior to her work in public health, Ms. McCarthy has over 10 years experience in the engineering and computer science fields.
Rule AM, Chapin AR, McCarthy SA, Gibson KE, Schwab KJ, Buckley TJ. Assessment of an aerosol treatment to improve air quality in a swine Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). Environ Sci Technol 2005; 39(24):9649–9655. Centeno JA, Kolker A, Gibb HJ, McCarthy SA. Potential health risks from long-term mercury exposure, a medical geology opportunity. 9th International Symposium on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine, Lisboa, Portugal, May 21-24, 2006. Chapin AR, McCarthy SA, Rule AM, Gibson KE, Buckley TJ, Schwab KJ. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in air and water associated with chicken and hog facilities. 104th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, New Orleans, LA, May 23-27, 2004.
- Project Manager, Sciences International Inc., 2006
- Senior Associate, Sciences International Inc., 2004–2006
- Research Coordinator, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, March–August 2002; January–April 2004
- Intern, General Electric, Aircraft Engine Division, 2003
- Instructor, K Computing, 1999–2001
- System Support Engineer, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), 1997–1999
- System Administrator, HT Medical, 1995–1997
- Electronics Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, 1991-1995
- American Industrial Hygiene Association, 2002–present
- Potomac Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, 2004–present; Treasurer-Elect, 2007–2008
- Chesapeake Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, 2002–2004
- Society of Risk Analysis, 2006–present
- Deputy Managing Editor, Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 2007–2008
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- M.H.S., Johns Hopkins University, 2004
- B.E.E., Catholic University of America, 1991
- Recipient of two-year NIOSH Training Grant Fellowship, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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