Rosemarie de la Rosa

Dr. Rosemarie de la Rosa is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Her research integrates environmental toxicology, molecular epidemiology, and health equity to examine how childhood social stressors and environmental pollutants interact to affect lifelong health outcomes.

• PhD & MPH in Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley
• BS in Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Her work focuses on:

• Biological embedding of toxic stress
• Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
• Structural racism in environmental health
• Epigenetic modifications from social adversity

Recent research trends show her contributions to understanding:

• Telomere shortening in children from polluted environments
• Allostatic load biomarkers in marginalized populations
• Intersectionality of psychosocial stress and asthma disparities

She leads community-based participatory research collaborations with institutions like:

• University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
• Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
• Telomere Research Network