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Neighborhood racial and economic privilege and timing of pubertal onset in girls

February 27, 2023

A team of researchers, led by Julia Acker, a doctoral student at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, sought to determine whether differences in racial and economic privilege at the neighborhood level may contribute to these disparities.

Additional authors of the paper are: Mahasin Mujahid and Julianna Deardorff (senior co-author), UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Sara Aghaee and Ai Kubo (senior co-author), Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California; Scarlett Gomez and Salma Shariff-Marco, Department of...

Prenatal exposure to chemicals in personal care products may speed puberty in girls

February 26, 2019

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By Kara Manke, republished with permission of news.berkeley.edu

Girls exposed to chemicals commonly found in toothpaste, makeup, soap and other personal care products before birth may hit puberty earlier, according to a new longitudinal study led by researchers at UC Berkeley.

The results, which were published Dec. 4 in the journal Human...

Faculty Publication: Ndola Prata

March 15, 2017
Community Health Workers as Social Marketers of Injectable Contraceptives: A Case Study from Ethiopia. Karen Weidert, Amanuel Gessessew, Suzanne Bell, Hagos Godefay, Ndola Prata Global Health: Science and Practice. First published online March 8, 2017, doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00344 Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) administered injectable contraceptives to women in the community for a small fee while providing counseling and referrals for other methods. Over nearly 3 years, more than...