Rosemarie de la Rosa, PhD, MPH

Rosemarie de la Rosa, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an environmental toxicologist and molecular epidemiologist, with specific expertise on investigating the influence of chemical exposures and social determinants of health on stress response pathways using biospecimens collected from human epidemiology studies. Her primary research goal is to understand how the social environment and context during childhood “gets under the skin” and influences susceptibility to the toxic effects of environmental pollutants over the life course. Current research projects include examining the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), resilience, and biomarkers of toxic stress. She also has projects evaluating the joint effect of childhood adversity and air pollution on health outcomes and stress-related biomarkers among children from communities that have been historically excluded from biomedical research.