Christine Loftus, PhD, MPH
Degree String
PhD, MPH
Job title
Clinical Associate Professor
Role:
Researcher
About
Christine Loftus is an environmental epidemiologist with over 15 years of research experience in prenatal and early-life exposures to chemical and nonchemical stressors associated with child health trajectories. She also studies the factors that may modify these relationships, such as prenatal nutrition or psychosocial stress. Active areas of research include the intersection between pediatric health disparities, wildfires and climate change, and intervention research. See her DEOHS faculty profile for more details.
Research
Selected publications
- Cohort profile: the ECHO prenatal and early childhood pathways to health consortium (ECHO-PATHWAYS)
- Maternal exposure to urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in pregnancy and childhood asthma in a pooled multi-cohort study
- Associations of Pre- and Postnatal Air Pollution Exposures with Child Behavioral Problems and Cognitive Performance: A U.S. Multi-Cohort Study
- Exposure to prenatal phthalate mixtures and neurodevelopment in the Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early childhood (CANDLE) study
- Longitudinal Changes in Youth Mental Health From Before to During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Education
- BS, Chemistry, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
- MS, Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- MPH, Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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