“Our data suggests that women with higher blood concentrations of PFOA and PFOS reached menopause earlier … than those with low exposure. This is equivalent to the effect of cigarette smoke, a known reproductive toxicant, where we compared current smokers and nonsmokers.”
News
- Nov 15 2024: IN THE NEWS: “What Do We Know About Environment, Climate, And Menopause? Not Enough” with Center Core Faculty Sung Kyun Park, ScD, MPH
- Sep 09 2024: IN THE NEWS: “Discrimination Could Be Making People of Color Age Faster” with Center affiliate Alexis N. Reeves, PhD, MPH on Scientific American podcast (AUDIO 🔊)
- Jul 09 2024: VIDEO: Center student Shichi Dhar featured in “We Are Michigan Public Health”
- Mar 25 2024: IN THE NEWS: “Your Doctor Retired — Now What? ” in CoveyClub, with comments from Center Core Faculty Siobán D. Harlow, PhD
Publications
- Sep 11 2024: “Diabetes and uterine fibroid diagnosis in midlife: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)” Authors: Susanna D Mitro, L Elaine Waetjen, Catherine Lee, Lauren A Wise, Eve Zaritsky, Siobán D Harlow, Samar R El Khoudary, Nanette Santoro, Daniel H Solomon, Rebecca C Thurston, Monique M Hedderson
- Jul 11 2024: “Associations of serum persistent organic pollutant concentrations with incident diabetes in midlife women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation Multi-Pollutant Study” Authors: Amelia Grant-Alfieri, William H Herman, Deborah J Watkins, Stuart Batterman, Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez, Sung Kyun Park
- Jun 28 2024: “The Michigan Farmworker Project: A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Research on Precarious Employment and Labor Exploitation of Farmworkers” Authors: Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios, Mislael Valentín-Cortés, Paul J Fleming, Marie S O'Neill, Alexis J Handal
Project: Michigan Lupus Epidemiology and Surveillance Program Longitudinal Cohort (MiLES)
Initiated in 2013, MiLES is a newly established cohort study which creates and maintains the MiLES Longitudinal Cohort & Biobank, including lupus cases from the southeast Michigan surveillance registry as well as population-based controls.
Project: Michigan Farmworker Project (MFP)
The Michigan Farmworker Project (MFP) is a community-engaged project that aims to provide a deeper understanding of the complex working and living conditions of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the state of Michigan and the relationship with health outcomes in this population. The MFP seeks to identify indicators of labor exploitation in farmworkers and relate this understanding to farmworker’s psychosocial, occupational and environmental risk factors as well as gaps in service provision and recommendations from farmworkers themselves to address their current working and living conditions.
Project: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)
Now in its 29th year, the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation is a multi-site, multi-ethnic longitudinal, study designed to examine the health — physical, biological, psychological and social changes — of women during the midlife and as they age. The resulting research helps scientists, health care providers and women learn how mid-life experiences affect health and quality of life during the midlife and as they age.