Cosmetics Regulatory Summit

Paula Johnson has led the California Safe Cosmetics Program at the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) for the past 8 years. The program investigates and informs the public about hazardous exposures from cosmetics and keeps a public searchable database of products containing ingredients linked to health harm. Dr. Johnson’s expertise includes exposure and epidemiological research on chemicals in consumer goods and methods for synthesizing streams of evidence of toxicity. She also has 10 years’ experience in product development and analysis for manufacturing industries. She obtained a doctorate in environmental health sciences from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in public health from San Diego State University. She was a research fellow with the University of California San Francisco’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, where she helped develop the first systematic review methodology for the toxicity of environmental chemicals, prior to joining CDPH.