Maternal and Child Health

Research Topics: Maternal and child health; One Health; Infectious Disease prevention and control; global development and health; climate change; flood borne outbreaks; water insecurity; water quality; antimicrobial resistance; rapid diagnostics; STEM education; transdisciplinary collaboration

Research Topics: Community Health Workers; maternal and child health; stress; patient-centered, culturally responsive care; community engagement; health disparities

Research Topics: Effects of toxic chemicals on child health, maternal and child health, and nutritional interventions among children

Research Topics: Pediatric environmental epidemiology with a focus on maternal and pediatric exposure to various environmental toxins/toxicants (e.g. lead, perfluorinated compounds, and phthalates) and the impact on immune dysfunction, endocrine disruption, respiratory disease, vaccine response, allergy, and breastfeeding success.

Research Topics: Child health services research; children and youth with special health care needs; pediatric trauma; implementation science; health politics; public health governance

Research Topics: Assessing air pollution exposure and associated health outcomes, and the underlying biological mechanisms; examining lifestyle factors, gene-environment interaction and cancer etiology, survival and prevention; as well as using a life-course approach to understand the role of various environmental and social exposure on child development and human health.

Research Topics: Maternal and child health; cardiometabolic health; life course; epigenetics; environmental epidemiology; mixture; susceptible window of exposure; DOHaD; vulnerable population; refugee health; telomere; biological aging; early life; endocrine-disrupting chemicals

Research Topics: Environmental epidemiology; health impacts of climate change; air pollution health effects; mitigation and adaptation to climate change; risk and resilience