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Program Director
Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program
Telephone: 240-781-3443
Email: sonia.rosenfield@nih.gov
- Ph.D. - Tumor Biology, Georgetown University
- B.S. - Biology, University of Maryland
Biography
Sonia Rosenfield, PhD, is a program director in the Environmental Epidemiology Branch (EEB) of the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) in NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). Her responsibilities include developing and managing a portfolio of grants that focuses on translational environmental epidemiology, with a particular emphasis on applying mechanistic insights from basic cancer research to better understand cancer risk, etiology, and development. Drawing on her training in tumor biology, she is especially interested in bridging basic and population sciences to advance understanding of how environmental exposures influence cancer biology.
Before joining EEB, Dr. Rosenfield served as a health science administrator in EGRP’s Office of the Associate Director (OAD), where she led strategic planning activities and supported the development and implementation of scientific initiatives across the program. She also helped with the implementation of the 2023 NIH Data and Management Policy across EGRP and DCCPS and the development of the Population Science Data Commons. She currently serves as Executive Director of the NCI Cohort Consortium. While in EEB, she continues to contribute to data-sharing compliance and data infrastructure development efforts.
Dr. Rosenfield first joined NCI in 2012 as a Cancer Research Training Award fellow in the Center for Cancer Research where she trained in molecular and cellular biology of cancer, stem cell research, developmental biology, and drug development. She also held appointments in the NCI’s Center for Research Strategy, the Scripps Research Institute, Johnson & Johnson, and Georgetown University.