This area focuses on the determinants of health throughout the lifecourse including those related to reproductive health, the perinatal period, childhood, and adolescence/young adulthood.
Reproductive topics include pubertal development, menstruation, gynecologic health (e.g., endometriosis, dyspareunia), sexually transmitted infections, contraception, reproductive cancers, and menopause.
Perinatal topics include pregnancy intention, fertility, assisted reproductive technologies, abortion, pregnancy complications (e.g., preeclampsia), and pregnancy outcomes (e.g., preterm birth, birth defects, neonatal mortality, postpartum depression).
Pediatric topics center on childhood (e.g., allergies, asthma) as well as adolescence/young adulthood (e.g., HPV vaccinations, mental health).
Methodological issues are a strong emphasis, as is a focus on health inequities—including among sexual and gender minority populations. Several faculty have expertise in global issues, and many focus on exposures—including environmental—that are salient throughout the lifecourse.
