Sara Lupolt
Affiliated Faculty
Sara joined the Center for a Livable Future as Affiliated Faculty in 2024. She is an assistant scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she teaches courses on the risk sciences and public policy.
She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Franklin & Marshall College, a master of public health degree from Milken Institute School of Public Health, and a doctorate in Environmental Health and Engineering from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was a CLF-Lerner Fellow from 2016 to 2020. During her fellowship, she was involved in the Safe Urban Harvests Study, which characterized the risks of exposure to metal contaminants among urban agriculture participants in Baltimore City.
As an exposure scientist, Sara works to improve the art and practice of exposure assessment while tackling a wide variety of environmental health and food system challenges. Sara’s research interests include community-engaged research, soil and food safety, occupational health, and urban agriculture.
When not working as a scientist, Sara visits national parks and reads voraciously.