She retired from the faculties of Texas A&M’s School of Rural Public Health and the University of Maryland School of Public Health, where she was the founding head of the environmental health program. She has also worked for the Maryland Department of the Environment, for Fortune 50 companies, and has been an independent consultant in environmental health. She was on the Maryland Governor’s Commission for Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities. In her spare time she is a fine-art photographer: bettydabney.com.