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EMILY BARRETT, PhD Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute Director, Epidemiology Concentration, Rutgers School of Public Health Co-Director, Epidemiology Core, Rutgers Corona Cohort Study Co-Director, Human Exposures and Outcomes Core, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

Dr. Barrett studies the early origins of health and disease, or how exposures early in life shape health and developmental outcomes. Because gestation is a particularly sensitive period when body systems are first forming, exposures during this period may

have profound downstream effects. Dr. Barrett is particularly interested in how prenatal exposures to environmental chemicals and psychosocial stressors impact pregnancy and children’s development. She leads two pregnancy cohort studies, TIDES and UPSIDE, both part of the NIH’s Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes program, the largest study of the health and well-being of U.S. children. In TIDES, Dr. Barrett and colleagues are studying how prenatal exposure to certain chemicals impacts reproductive- and neuro-development, and whether the effects may differ based on gender. In UPSIDE, she and colleagues are examining the biological pathways by which prenatal psychosocial stressors impact children’s development, with an emphasis on sex steroid, inflammatory, and placental pathways.

REYNOLD A. PANETTIERI, JR., MD Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine and Science Professor of Medicine Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Director, Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science

Director, New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., MD, Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson

Medical School is renowned for his scholarship and comprehensive clinical care of patients with asthma and COPD. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Robert E. Cooke Memorial Lectureship at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Meeting, the Joseph R. Rodarte Award for Scientific Distinction and the Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishments from the American Thoracic Society. Previously, Dr. Panettieri served as the Robert L. Mayock and David A. Cooper Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as the deputy director of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he remains Professor Emeritus. He is principal investigator on several NIH-sponsored grants and industry-sponsored clinical studies, and leads the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science. He is the author of over 475 peer-reviewed publications.

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