Prenatal Stress Effects Seminar

Rosalind Wright, PhD, will present a seminar titled, “Complexities of Elucidating Prenatal Stress Effects on Child Health.”

This seminar will (1) Review the general stress-health paradigm; (2) Consider independent stress effects in a lifecourse framework; (3) Review epidemiologic evidence linking early life stress to respiratory and neurodevelopmental disease programming; (4) Examine chemical x social stress interactions in this context; and (5) Examine evidence for sex-specific effects.

Rosalind J. Wright, M.D., M.P.H., is the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Children’s Health Research at Kravis Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics and Dean for Translational Biomedical Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Dr. Wright is a transdisciplinary lifecourse epidemiologist with a primary interest in prenatal and early childhood predictors of developmental disorders including asthma, obesity, neurobehavioral outcomes, and antecedents of chronic cardiometabolic disorders. She has expertise in environmental health, stress research, genetics/epigenetics, and nutritional epidemiology. Dr. Wright’s research considers environmental interactions (e.g., stress, nutritional factors, air pollution, aeroallergens, chemicals, tobacco smoke) as well as gene x environment interactions in disease programming.

For more information about the CEHS seminar series, contact Michael Sanderson, sanderson@unc.edu.