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Christina Chambers

Christina Chambers

· PhD, MPH, Professor, Secondary Appointed

University of California, San Diego · Climate and Environmental Sciences

Active 1952–2026

h-index71
Citations20.9k
Papers651208 last 5y
Funding$33.5M3 active

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About

Dr. Christina Chambers is a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as Vice Chair of Clinical Research for the Department of Pediatrics at UCSD and Rady Children's Hospital. She is a perinatal epidemiologist whose research focuses on environmental exposures and their impact on pregnancy and child health outcomes, including birth defects. Dr. Chambers co-directs the Center for Better Beginnings at UCSD and is the Program Director of MotherToBabyCalifornia, providing evidence-based information on exposures during pregnancy and lactation to the public and healthcare providers. She is also the founder and Program Director of Mommy’s Milk, a nationwide human milk biorepository for research, and directs the UCSD ACTRI Center for Life Course and Vulnerable Populations Research, which brings together multidisciplinary researchers to address study questions across the lifespan and in vulnerable populations. Her research over the past 20 years has been instrumental in identifying previously unrecognized human teratogens and in ruling out substantial risks for other prenatal exposures, with a focus on substances such as recreational drugs, medications, alcohol, and vaccines, and their effects on neurodevelopmental outcomes and pregnancy.

Research topics

  • Medicine
  • Internal medicine
  • Obstetrics
  • Clinical psychology
  • Gynecology
  • Virology
  • Anesthesia
  • Physical therapy
  • Pediatrics
  • Pathology

Selected publications

Recent grants

Frequent coauthors

  • Kenneth Lyons Jones

    University of California, San Diego

    204 shared

  • Rebecca J. Baer

    University of California, San Diego

    167 shared

  • Gretchen Bandoli

    University of California, San Diego

    148 shared

  • Martha M. Werler

    Boston University

    128 shared

  • William Slikker

    National Center for Toxicological Research

    121 shared

  • Anthony R. Scialli

    Foundation for Reproductive Medicine

    113 shared

  • Jan M. Friedman

    112 shared

  • Thomas B. Knudsen

    Research Triangle Park Foundation

    109 shared

Education

  • M.D.

    University of California, San Diego

  • B.S.

    University of California, San Diego

Awards & honors

  • Mentor Honor, Junior Faculty Development Program
  • 16th Annual Women Who Mean Business Awards
  • F. Clarke Fraser New Investigator Award
  • Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Me…
  • Rady Children’s Hospital Award for Excellence in Research

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