Sheryl Magzamen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. She is an epidemiologist, with a focus on the relative contribution of social factors and environmental exposure on chronic disease, with specific attention to respiratory health. Living and working in the Mountain West, her research program investigates the health effects of wildfire smoke exposure and has expanded to include quantification of smoke from landscape fires and health effects from agricultural fires. Through her collaborations, she has expanded her research on health effects of air quality to include cognitive impairments in older adults as well as adverse outcomes in pregnancy and early childhood. Sheryl received her PhD in epidemiology from Berkeley and holds an undergraduate degree in biology from Cornell.