Emily Barrett

About

Professor Emily Barrett is associated with EOHSI at Rutgers University, which sponsors research, education, and service programs in environmental health, toxicology, occupational health, exposure assessment, public policy, and health education. The institute houses a group of scientists, physicians, educators, and policy researchers engaged in studies of contaminants and various environmental policy and public health issues. EOHSI's mission includes studying and improving environmental and occupational health through scientific research, training, and communication of research findings to professional and lay groups. The institute offers graduate degree programs such as the Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology, the Joint Graduate Program in Exposure Science, and a Residency Program in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Additionally, EOHSI participates in summer enrichment programs for undergraduates and high school students interested in environmental and occupational health, toxicology, and related fields.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Biology
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Immunology
• Physiology
• Demography
• Environmental health
• Intensive care medicine

Selected publications

• Developmental origins of metabolic diseases

  Physiological Reviews · 2020 · 417 citations

  Almost 2 billion adults in the world are overweight, and more than half of them are classified as obese, while nearly one-third of children globally experience poor growth and development. Given the vast amount of knowledge that has been gleaned from decades of research on growth and development, a number of questions remain as to why the world is now in the midst of a global epidemic of obesity accompanied by the "double burden of malnutrition," where overweight coexists with underweight and mi…

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• Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously undiagnosed health care workers in New Jersey, at the onset of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic

  BMC Infectious Diseases · 2020 · 198 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers (HCW) are presumed to be at increased risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection due to occupational exposure to infected patients. However, there has been little epidemiological research to assess these risks. METHODS: We conducted a prospective cohort study of HCW (n = 546) and non-healthcare workers (NHCW; n = 283) with no known prior SARS-CoV-2 infection who were recruited from a large U.S. university and two affiliated unive…

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• Black and Latinx Community Perspectives on COVID-19 Mitigation Behaviors, Testing, and Vaccines

  JAMA Network Open · 2021 · 111 citations

  Importance: Black and Latinx communities have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet little work has sought to understand their perspectives. Objective: To explore the experiences of Black and Latinx communities during the pandemic to better understand their perspectives on COVID-19 mitigation behaviors (eg, mask wearing), testing, and vaccines. Design, Setting, and Participants: In this community-engaged qualitative study conducted with 18 community-based organizations a…

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• Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously undiagnosed health care workers at the onset of the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic

  medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2020 · 101 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  IMPORTANCE: Healthcare workers are presumed to be at increased risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection due to occupational exposure to infected patients. However, no epidemiological study has examined the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a cohort of healthcare workers during the early phase of community transmission. OBJECTIVE: To determine the baseline prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a cohort of previously undiagnosed healthcare workers and a co…

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• Birth Outcomes in Relation to Prenatal Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Stress in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program

  Environmental Health Perspectives · 2023 · 98 citations

  BACKGROUND: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent and ubiquitous chemicals associated with risk of adverse birth outcomes. Results of previous studies have been inconsistent. Associations between PFAS and birth outcomes may be affected by psychosocial stress. OBJECTIVES: We estimated risk of adverse birth outcomes in relation to prenatal PFAS concentrations and evaluate whether maternal stress modifies those relationships. METHODS: We included 3,339 participants from 11 prosp…

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Recent grants

• Community Engagement Core & Science Communication

  NIH · $18.4M · 1997–2029

• NIH Grant R01HD083369

  NIH · $2.6M · 2021

• Common Mechanisms linking Pre- and Post-Natal Exposures for Child Health Outcomes

  NIH · $7.0M · 2016–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Sheela Sathyanarayana

  University of Washington

  257 shared

• Ruby H.N. Nguyen

  176 shared

• Thomas G. O’Connor

  171 shared

• Nicole R. Bush

  Cohort (United Kingdom)

  159 shared

• Zorimar Rivera‐Núñez

  Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

  142 shared

• Shanna H. Swan

  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  136 shared

• Richard K. Miller

  University of Rochester

  120 shared

• Kaja Z. LeWinn

  University of California, San Francisco

  91 shared

Labs

• EOHSIPI

Education

• Other, Biology and English

  Rutgers University

Awards & honors

• Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Healt…
• Environmental Health News Science Communications Fellow (200…

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