Our Team

Amy Padula, PhD, MSc

Acting Director

Dr. Amy Padula is the Acting Director for PRHE. She is a faculty member in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. Dr. Padula is a recipient of the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) R01 Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to investigate the impact of wildfires and other biomass burning on preterm birth in California. She currently serves as the Co-Director of the Research Core for ECO-Health, the P20-funded climate and health center. She co-leads the ongoing Chemicals in Our Bodies prospective cohort at UCSF and an R01-funded project on report back of individual chemical results. She collaborates with colleagues at Emory University and Rutgers to study wildfires in relation to IVF outcomes. In 2017, Dr. Padula was named one of the 20 Pioneers under 40 in Environmental Public Health by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment. She was also awarded a fellowship from the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (2022-2023) and collaborated with the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to joining PRHE, she received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and trained as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Neonatology.

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