Shirley A.A. Beresford

Dr. Beresford received BA and MA degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge University, U.K., MSc in Mathematical Statistics at the University of Sussex, and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of London. She served on the faculty of the University of London, Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and since 1987, of the University of Washington, now as Professor of Epidemiology.

Dr. Beresford has more than forty years of experience in socio-medical and epidemiological research, designed to improve population health and to reduce health disparities. For more than 25 years she worked actively in the area of health effects of folic acid having significant impact in the mandatory fortification of enriched flour and grain products with synthetic folic acid. She played a leadership role in the Women