Environmental Science
and Health
Healthy babies are our passion. Discover the Division of Environmental Science and Health
More About Our DivisionWelcome to the Division of Environmental Science and Health
The Division of Environmental Health and Science aims to understand and promote the health of infants and children through clinical research. The Division’s researchers lead multiple nationwide studies using a variety of data sources to better understand the safety of medications, vaccines, dietary supplements, and maternal conditions for child health. The Division also has a special research focus on prenatal substance use including alcohol, cannabis, opioids and other substances to better understand how timing, dose and polysubstance use may or may not have short and/or long-term effects on child growth and development.
Our goal is to help fill the significant gaps in knowledge about prenatal (and postnatal) exposures to inform better health care for mothers and their children.
Tina Chambers, MD
Division Chief
Environmental Science and Health
In the News
Current Research
Birth Outcomes in Women Who Have Taken Vedolizumab in Pregnancy: Results From the Vedolizumab Pregnancy Exposure Registry
June 11, 2025
Short-term side effects following COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancies complicated by autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases: A prospective cohort study
May 22, 2025
Mammary intraepithelial lymphocytesand intestinal inputs shape T cell dynamicsin lactogenesis
July 29, 2025
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Mailing Address
Physical Address and Phone Number
Phone 858-246-2140
Fax 858-246-1793