Professional Profile
Ms. Natalie VanderNoot is a toxicologist in ToxStrategies’ Causation Analysis practice area. She recently earned her Master of Public Health degree at Columbia University in Environmental Health Sciences, with a certificate in Molecular Epidemiology. She has worked at ToxStrategies since 2025, conducting literature reviews, data analysis, and assisting in report writing on a variety of client projects. She has worked on evaluations of exposure and risk related to asbestos, heavy metals, solvents, benzene, and PFAS. Her primary interest is in the growing field of microplastics research.
While at Columbia University, Ms. VanderNoot worked on a study of metal exposure in baby food. She conducted a literature review, analyzed laboratory and epidemiological data, and collaborated on a manuscript. She also completed a process-improvement project designed to reduce pharmaceutical hazardous waste in the chemotherapy compounding pharmacy at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Irving Medical Center. Prior to graduate school, she worked in clinical research management and marketing. At BuildClinical (now OpenClinica), she was a Customer Success Associate and managed social media campaign launch, contract budgets, and participant recruitment success for research studies at academic institutions. At the University of California, Los Angeles, she was a Research Associate on a study that aimed to identify predictors of antidepressant treatment outcomes in adolescents. She collected data via clinical interviews and specimen collection, conducted social stress tests, recruited and screened participants, and managed regulatory compliance. Her undergraduate research internships spanned literature reviews, qualitative data collection, and data analysis in the areas of the gut microbiome and chronic liver disease.
Ms. VanderNoot has presented her research and policy analyses at scientific meetings. At ToxStrategies, Ms. VanderNoot supports research and development for expert witness reports and is investigating the growing role of microplastics in human health and the environment.