Tamarra James-Todd, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Professor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dr. Tamarra James-Todd is the Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also an Associate Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Her research focuses on environmental chemical exposures, reproductive health outcomes, and racial/ethnic disparities in women’s long-term chronic disease risk. Specifically, Dr. James-Todd’s evaluates the link between environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals commonly found in consumer products, including cosmetics and personal care products, and their association with women’s reproductive health. Her primary interests are evaluating these chemicals as they relate to cardiometabolic health during and following pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes. Dr. James-Todd is the Principal Investigator of the NIEHS-funded ERGO study, an ongoing prospective cohort study exploring the role of endocrine disrupting chemical exposures during the perinatal period as they relate to pregnancy complications. She served as PI of the Greater New York Hair Products Study, which was one of the first studies to evaluate chemicals in black hair care products and breast cancer risk factors.
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Publications
Major Research Interests: valuating the role of environmental chemicals, particularly endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on adverse maternal health outcomes, assessing racial/ethnic disparities in environmental chemical exposures and adverse health outcomes, and developing pregnancy and postpartum interventions to improve women’s chronic disease risk.Helman S, James-Todd TM, Wang Z, Bellavia A, Wyckoff JA, Serdy S, Halprin E, O'Brien K, Takoudes T, Gupta M, McElrath TF, Brown FM. Time trends in pregnancy-related outcomes among women with type 1 diabetes mellitus, 2004-2017. J Perinatol. 2020 Aug;40(8):1145-1153. doi: 10.1038/s41372-020-0698-x. Epub 2020 Jun 2.PMID: 32488037
Stuart JJ, Tanz LJ, Missmer SA, Rimm EB, Spiegelman D, James-Todd TM, Rich-Edwards JW.Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Maternal Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Development: An Observational Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Aug 21;169(4):224-232. doi: 10.7326/M17-2740. Epub 2018 Jul 3. PMID: 29971437
Mitro SD, Chu MT, Dodson RE, Adamkiewicz G, Chie L, Brown FM, James-Todd TM. Phthalate metabolite exposures among immigrants living in the United States: findings from NHANES, 1999-2014. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2019 Jan;29(1):71-82. doi: 10.1038/s41370-018-0029-x. Epub 2018 Mar 23. PMID: 29572484