Professional Profile
Ms. Covell is an environmental toxicologist with a master’s degree and recent experience studying ecological and human health and safety in both the academic and consulting arenas. She has developed functional, computational workflows based on the principles of toxicology, exposure science, behavioral science, and risk assessment, with a goal of evaluating human exposure in various settings. She managed and provided litigation support to testifying expert witnesses on cases of asbestos exposure from automotive friction products, insulation, gaskets and packing, joint compound, stucco, and talc.
As a research associate at Columbia University, Ms. Covell performed statistical analyses on data from more than 300 participants, cleaning and analyzing the cohort data set and completing regression and stratification analysis, along with detailed code review, for publication in the scientific literature. Also at Columbia, she directed and advised a team of thirteen teaching assistants and five professors to design and present the course, “CORE Determinants of Health.”
Ms. Covell’s skill set includes the use of RStudio, QGIS, and ToxPi, as well as statistical modeling, data visualization, spatial mapping, computational toxicology, research methods, and descriptive toxicology.