Sandler is a past president of the American College of Epidemiology and received a Dr. Nathan Davis Award in 2015.

in Mathematics and Philosophy, cum laude at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences in June 1972.

In October 1979, Sandler completed a Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

[3] Sandler is adjunct professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sandler received an NIH Director's Award in 2011 for her work in developing the GuLF STUDY.