Dr. von Ehrenstein’s interdisciplinary research examines environmental factors considering the interplay with social, behavioral and biological factors in relation to health and disease. She focuses the prenatal period to adolescence, with a life course perspective. Her work aims at improving population health and sustainability, especially in low resource settings and communities in different countries.
Ondine S. von Ehrenstein
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Public Health/Epidemiology
- MPH, Epidemiology
- MSc, Biology
Areas of Interest
- Global health
- Reproductive, perinatal, child and adolescent health
- Environmental epidemiology
- Physical (air pollution, pesticides, toxics) and social environment
- Developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD)
- Early life adversity
- Environmental equity
- Urban health
- Climate change
- Nutrition ecology
- Epidemiologic methods
Selected Courses
- CHS 200: Global Health Problems
- CHS 240: Child and Reproductive Health in Communities – a Global Environmental Perspective