Brenda Eskenazi, PhD

Brenda Eskenazi, PhD directs the Center for Environmental Research and Community Health (CERCH, cerch.berkeley.edu) at the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. She is the Distinguished Jennifer and Brian Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology. Dr. Eskenazi is a neuropsychologist and epidemiologist whose long-standing research interest has been the effects of the environmental factors on human reproduction (both male and female) and child development. Her work has included the potential health effects of numerous toxicants on a wide spectrum of child health outcomes. Her work has a community-based participatory research focus, and, she has been instrumental in illustrating the health conditions of farmworker families through the long-standing CHAMACOS project. She has conducted, collaborated, or advised on birth cohort studies in almost every continent. Professor Eskenazi was awarded the prestigious John R. Goldsmith award from the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology for lifetime achievement in environmental epidemiology and this year, the Child Health Advocate in Science Award from Children’s Environmental Health Network.