Jorge G. Muñiz Ortiz was born in Medellín, Colombia, adopted by his Puerto Rican parents, and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After graduating from Colegio San José in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico in 1998, he attended the University of Dayton, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology in 2002. He graduated with his Ph.D. in Molecular Toxicogenetics from the University of Cincinnati in 2009. Jorge received further training in toxicology at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2009 to 2012 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and at the North Carolina State University from July 2012 to June 2013 as a Postdoctoral Scholar. In 2013 he was called to active duty with the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service. His first tour of duty was as a toxicologist with the Science Staff of the Office of Public Health Science within the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In December 2016, Jorge became a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology and joined the Risk Assessment Branch of the Antimicrobials Division within the Office of Pesticide Programs of the U.S. EPA. In May 2022, Jorge joined the Bureau of Primary Health Care at the Health Resources and Services Administration as an Investment Oversight Advisor managing grant expenditures of federally qualified community health centers. In January of 2025, Jorge joined the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health as a Program Officer.
In his spare time Jorge likes to run, do CrossFit, go to Washington Nationals games and enjoy various activities with the family like going to the beach, traveling, hiking, and off-roading.
Jorge lives in Arlington, VA with his wife, Debbie, of 19 years, 12-year-old daughter Paloma, and their dog, Princesa.
