Air Pollution and Pregnancy with Carrie Breton, ScD and Zhongzheng Jason Niu, PhD

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Air Pollution and Pregnancy with Carrie Breton, ScD and Zhongzheng Jason Niu, PhD
May 23, 2023 Season 1 Episode 2
Carrie Breton, ScD and Zhongzheng Jason Niu, PhD

Carrie Breton, ScD is a professor of population and public health sciences and co-director of the Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities. Breton is interested in understanding how prenatal environmental exposures and stressors affect epigenetic pathways and maternal and child health outcomes.

Zhongzheng Niu, PhD is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. He has a broad interest in understanding early life environmental risk factors and biological mechanisms for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) theory, with a particular focus on cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and aging-related biomarkers.

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