Perera Interview (Current Research) – Part 2

In my interview of Dr. Frederica Perera (professor at the Mailman School of Public Health and Director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health), I asked about her current work on environmental health issues. This video contains her responses to the prompts listed below.

(Duration 12:57)

Contents

1. Why did you begin studying inner-city communities in New York? 00:40
2. Please describe your work at the Center for Children’s Environmental Health at Columbia. 02:00
3. Please say more about how your new epidemiological methods work and what you’ve learned? 05:15
4. What have you found about prenatal exposures to air pollutants and other toxic chemicals? 06:50
5. Have you seen examples of where decreased toxic exposures have yielded positive health effects? 09:10
6. What can you say about the interrelationship of toxic chemicals and climate change on young children? 10:10

More of the Perera interview is here.

Perera Interview (Early Career) – Part 1

In my interview of Dr. Frederica Perera (professor at the Mailman School of Public Health and Director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health), I asked about how and why she began her work on environmental health issues and how she began her work on molecular epidemiology.  This video contains her responses to the prompts listed below (duration: 10:58).

Contents

1. How did you become interested in researching the effects of environmental pollutants on human health? 00:40
2. Was there any event that particularly triggered your interest in studying environmental toxins? 01:30
3. What led you to pursue a degree in Environmental Health Sciences and Public Health? 02:50
4. Tell me a bit more about you learned in your early collaboration with Dr. Weinstein. 06:20
5. How did the results of that study influence your work? 07:25
6. How did your research in molecular epidemiology evolve to focus on the fetus and other susceptible groups? 08:40