Who has published on PFAS in drinking water in the last three years, and who funds that work?
RTI has 146 publications since 2022 on PFAS and drinking water, with a concentrated cluster of researchers in the Center for Environmental Health, Risk, and Sustainability; the primary funder of this work is EPA, supplemented by CDC/ATSDR.
Who is publishing. The most active authors are Jennifer Hoponick Redmon (Senior Director, Environmental Health and Water Quality), Nikki DeLuca (exposure modeling, tap water surveillance), Andrew "AJ" Kondash (drinking water chemistry and geospatial analysis), and Erica Wood (citizen-science well-water studies). Others contributing include Linda Morris Brown (multi-site PFAS health cohort), Ted Lillys (groundwater fate and transport modeling), Imari Walker-Franklin (analytical chemistry, post-Helene river monitoring), Kelly Hoffman (water quality and risk communication), and Ki Young Cha (subsurface modeling for CDC/EPA).
What they're covering. Work spans PFAS in rural private wells, tap-water surveillance using non-targeted analysis (American Healthy Homes Survey II), residential dust co-exposure pathways, PFAS in beer tracing back to municipal water, Bayesian modeling to predict GenX exposure near Fayetteville Works, and a large CDC/ATSDR-led multi-site health study across eight contaminated communities (2019–2023).
Who funds it. EPA is the dominant funder — it holds 108 active federal awards with RTI since 2022 totaling ~$247M (real USASpending.gov data), covering the STREAMS analytical-support contract under which much PFAS lab and exposure work sits, as well as the NHANES-adjacent American Healthy Homes Survey. CDC/ATSDR underpins the multi-site PFAS serum/health cohort (Linda Morris Brown et al.) — CDC holds 61 awards with RTI since 2022 totaling ~$212M; the ATSDR-led PFAS Exposure Assessments are explicitly cited in multiple publications.