Libby McClure is a Kendall Fellow: Nuclear Weapons, Science, and Equity with the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Dr. McClure's research focuses on the ways in which historical and structural inequalities perpetuate current health disparities, including her analyses of the legacy impact of the US nuclear weapons industrial complex on health in and around the Hanford nuclear site in Washington State. She brings experience and focus on collaborative, social, and environmental justice-oriented research that supports social change and responds to community concerns.
Prior to joining UCS, Dr. McClure was a health data analyst at DataWorksNC. Before that, she was a senior epidemiologist at the CDC Foundation deployed to the COVID-19 response at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. McClure holds an undergraduate degree in anthropology and biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MS in social epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with concentrations in women, gender, and health, and maternal and child health. She earned her PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a concentration in social and occupational epidemiology.