Friday, October 1, 2021
3:30-5:00 PM
COEH, 100 Theory, Room 158
Carrie Breton, ScD
Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Carrie Breton, ScD, is Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and is Director of the Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities. She also co-directs the USC program site for the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) national NIH program. Dr. Breton’s work addresses the interplay between genetics, epigenetics and susceptibility to environmental exposures such as air pollution and tobacco smoke on health outcomes in children. Her work in the MADRES Center examines whether pre- and postpartum environmental exposures, coupled with exposures to psychosocial and built environment stressors, affect maternal and child cardiometabolic health outcomes, including perturbed infant growth trajectories and increased childhood obesity risk. Her work in ECHO takes a multigenerational life course approach to studying the contribution of the environment to the developmental origins of childhood and emerging adult respiratory and metabolic health. She has conducted several other studies investigating how environmental exposures alter epigenetic profiles in newborns and young children, and what roles those changes play in underlying disease risk. Dr. Breton holds an ScD in Epidemiology from Harvard T Chan School of Public Health, an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA from Amherst College.