Maternal and Child Health Events

Asia Maselko, ScD, Associate Professor Epidemiology at the Gillings School, will present a seminar titled, "Maternal Mental Health, the Social Context, and Child Development: The Promise and Limitations of Maternal Depression Treatment." Maternal depression is an established risk factor for worse child developmental outcomes, yet it is not clear whether treating depression is enough to improve... Read more »

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... Read more »