Jessica Trowbridge
About Jessica's Work
Jessica Trowbridge, PhD, MPH, is an environmental health scientist working to prevent harmful chemical exposures and advance environmental justice. She is an Associate Professional Researcher at the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) at UC San Francisco, where she leads collaborative research that synthesizes evidence on toxic chemical exposures and helps translate science into policy and action.
Jessica’s work has focused on occupational and environmental exposures to PFAS, flame retardants, and other hazardous chemicals, particularly among workers and historically marginalized communities. As a doctoral student at UC Berkeley, she collaborated on the first study evaluating chemical exposures among women firefighters in San Francisco through a community-based participatory partnership with firefighter organizations and advocates. The research generated novel biomonitoring data and contributed to the evidence base informing California legislation banning PFAS in consumer products. She later provided invited testimony to the Alaska State Legislature supporting firefighter cancer protections that were signed into law in 2022.
Jessica grew up binationally between Mexico and the United States, an experience that shaped her understanding of environmental health disparities. A proud community college transfer student, she remains passionate about expanding access to higher education and STEM pathways for first-generation and non-traditional students.
