Erin McCanlies

Erin McCanlies is an epidemiologist who spent two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, where she studied the links between parental exposure to workplace chemicals and autism. Her significant research has provided insights into how environmental factors can affect the likelihood of autism in children. However, her work was abruptly disrupted when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her division and cut funding for autism research, hindering the advancement of her studies just as she was finalizing a major paper on the topic.