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Audrey Gaskins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. Her research focuses on how environmental, dietary, and lifestyle factors influence reproductive health across the lifespan, with a primary emphasis on fertility and assisted reproductive technologies (ART). She holds a BSc in Engineering from Duke University and a Doctor of Science from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Key areas of interest include maternal and child health, nutritional influences on fertility, air pollution effects on reproductive outcomes, and environmental epidemiology. She teaches courses such as Reproductive Epidemiology (EPI 746) and has affiliations with organizations like the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Environmental Epidemiology.
Her work frequently examines mechanisms linking exposures to reproductive health, leveraging ART patient cohorts to study biomarkers like antimüllerian hormone and phthalate metabolites. Notable studies include investigations into parental smoking's intergenerational effects on gestational diabetes and the role of air pollution in embryo development during IVF, as highlighted in media coverage.
Dr. Gaskins' research also addresses dietary patterns (e.g., dairy, soy, and pesticide residues in produce) and their associations with semen quality and IVF success. She collaborates on projects like the EARTH Study, analyzing environmental exposures in fertility contexts.
