A Double Hit to Health: Mixture Effects of Early-Life Heavy Metal and Psychosocial Exposures on Health Outcomes

M-LEEaD's Integrated Health Sciences Core's webinar series is an interdisciplinary forum for interested researchers to come together to learn and discuss wide-ranging issues in the field of environmental health.

Sara Stein is a Research Assistant Professor in the department of Health Behavior and Health Equity, School of Public Health. Dr. Stein's research interest statement: "As a clinical scientist, I examine the transmission of the effects of trauma from mother to child prenatally, postnatally, and when women are parenting young children. My goal is to reduce these effects in families by improving interventions for trauma-exposed women as they become parents. Ultimately, I seek to create treatments that target intergenerational transmission and that are responsive to community needs. I center my work in understanding how mothers are shaped by the social structures in which they are embedded. My research is grounded in my clinical experience with structurally disadvantaged women with complex trauma histories. My clinical work as a fully licensed clinical social worker integrates evidence-based approaches and translates research into trauma-informed public scholarship and clinical tools for adults, children, and clinicians.