Please join us for the next webinar in our monthly series presenting the
latest research findings of the Children’s Environmental Health and Disease
Prevention Research Centers (“Children’s Centers”) on Wednesday March 13,
2013. The webinar will include two presentations from two of the Centers
about: air pollution and pregnancy outcomes; social context and environmental
exposures; and the association between traffic-related air pollution, preterm
births, and socioeconomic status. We urge you to let your colleagues know
about these webinars – there is no limit to the number of people that can
participate in the webinar.

The Children’s Centers were established in 1998 to explore ways to reduce
children’s health risks from environmental factors. The program is jointly
funded by EPA through the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grants program and
the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

This webinar will be on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST

1:00 – 2:00 PM: Presentations
2:00 – 2:30 PM: Questions and Answers

To register go to:
http://www.epa.gov/ncer/events/#marcehc-webinar

Marie Lynn Miranda
Duke University
Southern Center on Environmentally-Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes (SCEDDBO)

Environment, Social Stressors and Disparities in Birth Outcomes

What you will learn:

– How air pollution exposures may affect pregnancy outcomes
– How social context interacts with environmental exposures to shape health
  outcomes
– How different methods can be integrated to deepen our understanding of air
  pollution impacts on pregnancy outcomes

Amy Padula
University of California – Berkeley
Berkeley/Stanford Children’s Environment Health Center

Traffic-related Air Pollution, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Risk of
Preterm Birth in the San Joaquin Valley of California

What you will learn:

– The association between traffic-related air pollution and preterm birth is
  driven by early preterm births;
– The association between air pollution and preterm birth is strong among those
  in low socioeconomic status neighborhoods;
– For those exposed to multiple pollutants at high levels, the associations are
  compounded.

Biosketches

Dr. Marie Lynn Miranda is Professor and Dean in the School of Natural
Resources and Environment and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the
University of Michigan.  In addition to her administrative leadership
responsibilities, Dr. Miranda directs the Children’s Environmental Health
Initiative (CEHI), which is a research, education, and outreach program
committed to fostering environments where all people can prosper.  CEHI
emphasizes the environmental health sciences and social justice components of
risks borne by children in the United States and internationally. CEHI runs
geospatial training programs both at the University of Michigan and
nationally.  CEHI is also leading a significant effort in developing
geospatial informatics to support health care delivery and improvements in
population health.  Dr. Miranda maintains a deep and abiding personal and
professional interest in social and environmental justice.

Dr. Amy Padula is a post-doctoral fellow in Pediatrics-Neonatology at Stanford
University. She works with the Shaw/Carmichael research group on the
Berkeley-Stanford Children’s Health and Air Pollution Study. Her research
focuses on the effects of air pollution during pregnancy on adverse birth
outcomes including preterm birth, low birth weight and birth defects. She is
also involved with related projects on pulmonary function, social factors and
causal inference statistical methods. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology
from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.Sc. in Medical
Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania.

For more information on this webinar series and to register see:
http://www.epa.gov/ncer/events/#marcehc-webinar