terça-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2009

Childhood at Risk:

Chemicals in Our Environment, Children and Cancer

UCSF environmental health scientist Tracey Woodruff explores how environmental contaminants affect the health of children and the risk of cancer.

Tracey Woodruff, is an expert on the impact of chemicals on reproductive health in both men and women. Her research focuses on health effects from air pollution, children’s health risks and science policy issues. She is the director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, which is part of UCSF’s National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. She came to UCSF from the Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation in the federal Environmental Protection Agency, where she was a senior scientist, policy analyst and epidemiological expert on particulate matter and ozone standards.