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Dr. Amelia Wesselink is an Affiliated Faculty member at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). She holds a PhD in Epidemiology from Boston University, an MPH in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from UC Berkeley, and a BS in Biology from Georgetown University.
Her research focuses on environmental exposures' impacts on reproductive and gynecologic health, particularly climate change, neighborhood factors, and endocrine disruptors. She leads the BUSPH-funded pilot study on personal heat exposure in the Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) cohort and co-investigates PRESTO and the Study of Environment, Lifestyle and Fibroids (SELF). Her work examines air pollution, heat, and chemical exposures related to miscarriage, uterine fibroids, and endometriosis.
Key areas include:
- Climate change's reproductive health consequences
- Endocrine disruptors' effects on fertility and gynecologic conditions
- Socioeconomic and environmental inequities in reproductive health outcomes
Her recent studies explore PFAS exposure's links to female sexual function, metal mixtures' impacts on depression in Black women, and oil/gas development's mental health effects. She has pioneered methods for mail-based biospecimen collection in preconception cohorts.
Grants/PI Roles:
- PI: BUSPH pilot study on personal heat exposure monitoring
- Co-I: PRESTO and SELF cohorts
Labs/Teams: Active in IGS and BUSPH's environmental epidemiology research groups, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on health equity and sustainability initiatives.
