Publications:423
Rosalind J Wright, MD, MPH
About Me
Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, is the Dean for Public Health and Chair of the Department of Public Health, as well as the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor in Life Course Health Research in the Departments of Public Health, and Environmental Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Wright is Co-Director of the Institute for Exposomic Research, Director of Conduits, the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program at Mount Sinai. She is an internationally recognized clinician-scientist and life course epidemiologist with transdisciplinary training in molecular biology, environmental health, and stress mechanisms. Her expertise encompasses environmental exposure assessment, genetics, epigenetics, and psychosocial stress measurement in environmental health studies.
Dr. Wright’s research has focused on the role of social risk and resiliency factors (e.g., psychosocial stress, social networks, socioeconomic factors) alone or in conjunction with physical environmental factors (e.g., ambient air pollution, diet/nutrition, allergens, chemicals) in programming chronic disease risk. Her work considers antecedents of chronic disease and a range of developmental outcomes in early childhood, including prematurity, birth weight, neuropsychological and cognitive development, sleep, asthma, lung function, and obesity. In 2012, Dr. Wright established the Physiological Assessment of Children’s Environmental Risk (PACER) laboratory, focused on assessing key regulatory biological response systems in pregnant women, infants, and children. Her research has been supported by uninterrupted funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 23 years. Dr. Wright received a Bachelor of Science in Human Genetics and her medical degree from the University of Michigan. She is highly committed to training the next generation of clinical translational scientists and has mentored 25 predoctoral and 33 postdoctoral students.
Dr. Wright was awarded the inaugural program for Scholars in Environmental Pediatrics, Reproductive Health, and Life Course Science K12 program funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. She has served on numerous national and international committees and is currently Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for the Precision Intervention for Severe and/or Exacerbation-Prone Asthma Network at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Language
English
Position
DEAN FOR TRANSLATIONAL BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, PROFESSOR | Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, PROFESSOR | Public Health, PROFESSOR | Environmental Medicine, PROFESSOR | Pediatrics, PROFESSOR | Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Research
Dr. Wright is a developmental epidemiologist with transdisciplinary training in environmental health and stress mechanisms. She has a primary interest in early life (prenatal and early childhood) predictors of developmental diseases including asthma, obesity, neurobehavioral development, and lung growth and development. A particular focus is on the implementation of studies considering the role of both social (e.g., psychosocial stress, other socioeconomic risk factors) and physical (e.g., air pollution, chemicals, dietary factors, allergens) environmental factors in explaining health disparities among lower-SES urban populations. Dr. Wright is the PI and Director of the Asthma Coalition on Community, Environment, and Social Stress (ACCESS) project as well as the Programming of Intergenerational Stress Mechanisms (PRISM) study funded by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI). This research program explores underlying mechanisms by incorporating biomarkers of physiological pathways through which psychological stress as well as chemical stressors may influence health (e.g., altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning, altered maturation of the immune system, disruption of the autonomic nervous system, and epigenetics).
Publications
Selected Publications
- Smoking-Associated DNA Methylation and Offspring Caries Experience: Findings from the GUSTO Study. A. A. Akinkugbe, C. Y. Hsu, C. Lesseur, V. Midya, K. H. Tan, K. Y. Jerry Chan, J. G. Eriksson, S. Y. Chan, Y. S. Chong, Y. S. Lee, D. Wang, J. Huang, R. O. Wright, N. Karnani, K. M. Godfrey, A. L. Teh, R. J. Wright. Journal of Dental Research
- Maternal adverse childhood experiences and prenatal stress: Intergenerational transmission and offspring mental health in the ECHO Cohort. Shaikh I. Ahmad, Alexandra D.W. Sullivan, Marie L. Churchill, Rosa M. Crum, Amanda N. Noroña-Zhou, Nora K. Moog, Patricia A. Brennan, Emily S. Barrett, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Claudia Buss, Leslie D. Leve, Michael A. Coccia, Judy L. Aschner, Lyndsay A. Avalos, Theresa M. Bastain, Lisa Croen, Dana Dabelea, Anne L. Dunlop, Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Assiamira Ferrara, Alison E. Hipwell, Akram N. Alshawabkeh, Kristen Lyall, Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, Thomas G. O'Connor, Emily Oken, Hudson P. Santos, Rosalind J. Wright, Jessica Arizaga, Su H. Chu, Heather Derry-Vick, Karen M. Tabb, Christine W. Hockett, Rachel S. Kelly, Brooke G. McKenna, John D. Meeker, Kaja Z. LeWinn, Nicole R. Bush. Psychological Medicine
- Gestational fine particulate matter exposure and perinatal outcomes in the ECHO cohort: Associations across pregnancy windows. Adaeze W. Nzegwu, Aisha S. Dickerson, Kristin Miller, Adam Szpiro, Alison E. Hipwell, Amy J. Elliot, Amy M. Padula, Anne L. Dunlop, Anne P. Starling, Assiamira Ferrara, Carrie V. Breton, Christine T. Loftus, Cindy T. McEvoy, Dana Dabelea, Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, Donghai Liang, Emily Oken, Emily S. Barrett, Heather Volk, James E. Gern, Joseph B. Stanford, Julie B. Herbstman, Jun Wu, Kristen Lyall, Leonardo Trasande, Leslie D. Leve, Margaret R. Karagas, Nicolò Pini, Rosalind J. Wright, Ruby H.N. Nguyen, Susan L. Schantz, Thomas G. O'Connor, Sheela Sathyanarayana, Catherine J. Karr, Daniel A. Enquobahrie. Environmental Research
Industry Relationships
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Dr. Wright has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.
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