The Team
Asa Bradman, Ph.D.
Professor Asa Bradman is an environmental health scientist and expert in exposure assessment and epidemiology focusing on occupational and environmental exposures to pregnant women and children. He co-founded the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH) in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and directs an initiative to improve environmental quality in California child care facilities. Prof. Bradman leads complex studies focusing on pesticides, flame retardants, metals, emerging pollutants, VOCs, indoor air quality, and other contaminants. He also participates in extensive community outreach and education and interfaces with other scientists, state and federal agencies, policy makers, and industry. He participates on several advisory bodies and was appointed by Governors Schwarzennegger and Brown to serve on the California Biomonitoring Scientific Guidance Panel.
David Newburg, Ph.D.
David Newburg was awarded a BS in Chemistry by the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), and a PhD in Biochemistry with minors in Nutrition and neuroscience from Boston University. He previously served for over two decades on the faculty of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he directed the Program in Glycobiology. David directed Boston College's Program in Glycobiology. The National Institutes of Health, Industry and Research Foundations have supported the research program directed by David continuously since 1976. He has been president of the Boston Glycobiology Discussion Group since it was founded in 1994, and is a founding board member and chair of the Research Advisory Board of the Mother's Milk Bank of New England, and active in the Human Milk Banking Association of North America. David serves as a reviewer for many research grants and scientific manuscripts at the federal and international level, and is a regularly invited international speaker and recognized expert in human milk glycobiology and infant development.
Rosana Weldon, MPH, Ph.D.
Rosana Weldon is an Environmental Health Scientist who has extensively studied human milk as a biomarker of exposure to mothers and their infants. She worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop methods for measuring chemicals in human milk and studied contaminant levels in human milk in several populations. Rosana serves as Study Coordinator and supervises all study activities and logistics.
Rosemary Castorina, Ph.D.
Rosemary Castorina holds a PhD from UC Berkeley in Environmental Health Science. Rosemary has extensive experience in exposure and risk assessment, with a special focus on mothers and children. She serves as a investigator on this project, participating in data analysis phase, risk assessment and interpretation of results.
Kristen Park
Kristen is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in public health. She spent her undergraduate years studying human reproduction, maternal health, and healthcare policy. Kristen became a certified birth and postpartum doula as a junior in college and has been serving the Bay Area for the past year. In addition, she is currently in the process of becoming a certified childbirth educator. Kristen believes promoting healthy moms and babies is at the foundation of a healthy society and aspires to be a certified nurse-midwife one day. She is a research assistant for the MILC Study.
Other cerch projects
More information about our other projects can be found at http://cerch.org/research-programs/
