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Cumulative Exposures and Population Health Team
M-LEEaD's recent renewal submission of the P30 Center grant included a re-design of our Translational Research Teams. The goal of this reimagination is to accelerate the public health impacts of the teams' work and promote opportunities for collaboration.
The first of these teams, the Cumulative Exposures and Population Health Team, aims to understand how environmental exposures over sensitive life stage impact health. Information learned from this can then be used to inform clinical and public health interventions. The team, led by Dr. Karen Peterson and Dr. Erica Jansen, is utilizing longitudinal studies to gather data on relationships between toxicant co-exposures and modifiers, such as diet and stress, over multiple life stages and a variety of health outcomes, such as cognition, growth, metabolic disease, and reproductive health.
"My team's research on prenatal and childhood lead exposure has been able to uncover epigenetic mechanisms that relate lead exposure to physical growth, maturation, and cognitive development," says Dr. Peterson. "Our findings have been incorporated into policy here in the U.S. and Mexico, and they are also being used to inform a peer education program to reduce home lead exposure in Grand Rapids."
Other work from the team has included showing links between childhood lead exposure and sleep patterns in adolescence and examining diet as a potential modifier on inflammation from cardiometabolic disease in perimenopause. M-LEEaD has been able to provide instrumental support for this work by providing opportunities for support and collaboration, including pilot funding and seed funding.
3/8/2022- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Zoom
Environmental Research Virtual Workshop "Making TSCA Work: Demystifying the Risk Assessment Process"
Environmental Justice Public Advocate Michigan EGLE, Office of the Environmental Justice Public Advocate
-- Patricia Koman, MPP, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist Environmental Health Sciences, UMich SPH
-- Gary Ginsberg, PhD
Director, Center for Environmental Health for the New York State Dept of Health Clinical Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health
-- Wendy Heiger-Bernays, PhD
Clinical Professor Department of Environmental Health, Boston University
-- Chanese Forté, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, University of California San Francisco
-- Wilma Subra
Technical Director Louisiana Environmental Action Network
