Public Health
Director of Exposure Science Program and Senior Toxicologist for Health Outcomes Military Exposures
Terra D. Vincent-Hall, PhD, DABT
Dr. Terra Vincent-Hall is Director of the Exposure Science Program and Senior Toxicologist for Health Outcomes Military Exposures (HOME). She has served as a toxicologist at VA since 2011. Dr. Vincent-Hall is VA’s technical expert on the chemical, biological, and physical exposures that Veterans may have encountered during military service and those related health effects.
Dr. Vincent-Hall works closely with other government agencies to identify and characterize service-related exposures to better understand their impact on the health of Veterans and service members. She also supports the development of health care and disability compensation policies, as well as training for health care providers. As a principal investigator, she leads several research activities to investigate the impact of exposures on Veteran populations, with current projects focusing on jet fuels and PFAS.
Dr. Vincent-Hall attended Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA, as a scholar in the Dozoretz National Institute for Mathematics and Applied Sciences and received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. She then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC, where she conducted her doctoral research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle Park, NC, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Toxicology in 2011. Dr. Vincent-Hall was board-certified in General Toxicology by the American Board of Toxicology in 2022.
