Dana Goin is an epidemiologist with research interests in reproductive and perinatal health outcomes. She received a MA in Biostatistics and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco at the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. Her current work focuses on environmental exposures, particularly water contaminants, and indicators of social and economic hardship to better understand their joint and independent effects on reproductive health outcomes. She is also an applied methodologist who identifies and evaluates the limitations of study design and analysis approaches with the goals of better understanding and preventing threats to causal inference, which is notoriously challenging when studying the pregnancy period.