Tamarra James-Todd
Fireside #1 Speaker
Dr. Tamarra James-Todd is an environmental reproductive epidemiologist researching the role of environmental chemicals on women’s health across the reproductive life course. She directs the Environmental Reproductive Justice (ERJ) Lab, which seeks to investigate and improve adverse environmental exposure and reproductive health disparities. Dr. James-Todd’s work specifically focuses on the importance of pregnancy as a sensitive window of consumer product and environmental chemical exposures.
Dr. James-Todd is also the Director of the Organics Core for the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center, where she launched the Environmental Justice Bootcamp in collaboration with two other NIEHS-funded P30 Centers. She is the Principal Investigator of multiple NIEHS funded R01 grants, focusing on endocrine disrupting chemicals and adverse maternal health outcomes during pregnancy, postpartum and mid-life in the ERGO study and Project Viva. She is the Principal Investigator for the Community Engagement Core of the Metals and Metal Mixtures: Cognitive Aging, Remediation, and Exposure Sources (MEMCARE) P42 Superfund Research Center as well. In addition, Dr. James-Todd is running interventions to improve environmental health literacy both in the lay community, as well as among health care professionals.
She has been awarded the Estrellita and Yosuf Karsh Visiting Professorship in Women’s Health for her research in environmental reproductive health and has served on the EPA’s Scientific Advisory Board for the Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee, two National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s committees and the March of Dimes Environmental Justice Working Group.