Kyla Taylor

Kyla Taylor is a project assistant at the Population Health Institute and a first-year graduate student in the department of Population Health Sciences. In May of 2006 she received her bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies from St. Olaf College. Last year she worked as a Web Researcher for Environmental Health News, a not-for-profit news website that helps to increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health. She also worked as an assistant at the UW-General Clinical Research Center. In 2005 she worked as an intern at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on the Uterine Fibroid Study, learning to analyze clinical, exposure and pathology data in order to identify risk factors for rapidly growing tumors. She has spent her last six summers at Camp Manito-wish, based in northern Wisconsin, leading canoeing and backpacking trips. The latest of which was a 28 day backpacking trip in Wyoming's Wind River Range. Her current interests include epidemiology and global health.

Contact Information:

Kyla Taylor
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
753 WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53726-2397

Phone: (608) 263-0352
Email: kwtaylor2@wisc.edu