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Beyond the Usual Suspects: New Evidence on Priority Understudied Chemicals in ECHO
September 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Beyond the Usual Suspects: New Evidence on Priority Understudied Chemicals in ECHO
Key Takeaways:
Pregnant people are exposed to a wide range of environmental chemicals, yet health effects have been studied for only a small fraction of them. This seminar will highlight how the ECHO Program is advancing research on priority understudied chemicals through innovative biomonitoring and large-scale epidemiologic studies, including new findings linking prenatal exposures to birth outcomes in more than 5,000 pregnancies.
Dr. Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Medicine & Senior Fellow in Woods Institute for the Environment, Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University.
Biography:
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH is a recognized expert on environmental pollution exposures and impacts on health, with a focus on pregnancy, infancy and childhood, and her innovations in translating and communicating scientific findings for clinical and policy audiences. She is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Medicine & Senior Fellow in Woods Institute for the Environment, Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University. She was previously a senior scientist and policy advisor for the U.S. EPA’s Office of Policy. For more information on Tracey’s work, visit Stanford Medicine, or follow on LinkedIn.
Dr. Jessie Buckley, PhD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Biography
Dr. Jessie Buckley, PhD, MPH is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on characterizing exposure to environmental chemicals and assessing their effects on bone and cardiometabolic health across the life course. Dr. Buckley serves as Director of Chemical Exposure Methodology for the ECHO Data Analysis Center, where she leads research on emerging chemical exposures and children’s health.