Environmental chemicals and midlife women’s health: an environmental reproductive justice lens
As an environmental epidemiologist, Dr. James-Todd’s research takes a three-way approach to studying and improving women’s reproductive and long-term health by:
1) evaluating the role of environmental chemicals on adverse maternal health outcomes;
2) assessing racial/ethnic disparities in environmental chemical exposures and adverse health outcomes; and
3) developing pregnancy and postpartum interventions to improve women’s chronic disease risk.
A related area of research focuses on racial/ethnic differences in environmental chemical exposures and their contribution to disparities in chronic disease risk.
ABOUT THE LECTURE
This special lecture honors Dr. Sower’s extraordinary scientific contributions to the field of women’s health and to inspire young scholars to transcend the boundaries between varying fields of research to advance women’s health. Dr. Sower’s unique insights into the breadth and depth of underlying physiological processes common to multiple diseases as well as her efforts to understand the linkages between ovarian and chronological aging has contributed substantially to the advancement of science. As a result of her contributions, women’s health grew from a peripheral field of study to a major discipline and we honor her legacy by inviting a groundbreaking researcher to present a lecture in her name.