STEEP Trainee and PhD candidate Heidi Pickard (Harvard University) was honored as a 2024 Harvard Horizons Scholar. Harvard Horizons celebrates the ideas and innovations of PhD students at Harvard and helps them gain essential professional skills.

“My work is trying to sound the alarm,” Pickard says. “These precursors [pre-PFAS chemicals] we’ve assumed aren’t a problem, probably are. So, we need to include them in regular biomonitoring and conduct toxicity assessments to identify whether or not exposure to these types of chemicals is important for fish consumers.”