Built, Natural, and Social Environments Across the Lifecourse: Towards an Integrated Model of Reproductive Health

The Office of Faculty Affairs is organizing a series of seminars by our tenure-track faculty members. These seminars will allow our tenure-track faculty members to showcase their research to our Harvard Chan community. The first in our series is scheduled for November 14, 2022 from 1:00 – 2:00PM and will be given by Dr. Carmen Messerlian, currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology. Her research examines the extent to which the natural, built, and social environments affect a couple’s ability to achieve conception, maintain pregnancy, and deliver healthy offspring. She investigates how paternal and maternal preconception exposures including large classes of chemicals and their mixtures, air pollutants, and stress impact ovarian reserve, semen quality, time to pregnancy, pregnancy loss, preterm birth, birth weight, placental parameters, and child development outcomes.