In addition, he is a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, collaborates with the Norwegian Public Health Institute, and consultants for the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences. His research areas are in toxicology and environmental epidemiology, and he develops mathematical models to estimate children’s exposure to environmental contaminants for assessing the health risks of early exposures. Dr. Verner’s work includes evaluating potential risks to infants from consuming human milk containing polychlorinated biphenyl congeners. He received a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Quebec at Montreal.