Welcome to the inaugural monthly newsletter for the Perinatal Origins of Disparities (POD) Center! Please forward this along to colleagues and community partners whose work aligns with the POD Center.
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Anna Rosenbaum, MSW, MPH
Anna Rosenbaum, MSW, MPH is an experienced health program manager focused on eliminating health disparities and promoting access to equitable, whole person health care. She has successfully developed, implemented, monitored, and evaluated a wide array of health programs and initiatives in diverse communities across California since 2002.
Anna holds a Master’s in Public Health and a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Washington, Seattle. Most recently she was a Program Manager with UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Anna is thrilled to be joining the team at the POD Center to support researchers, students, health providers, and community partners in the essential work of understanding and addressing the perinatal origins of disparities.
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Congratulations to POD Faculty
Named 2021-22 Chancellor's Fellow
Read more here about the Chancellor's Fellows and Michele La Merrill, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Toxicology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
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You're Invited: Monthly POD Meeting!
Please mark your calendars for our monthly POD General Meeting the last Wednesday of each month from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. The next POD General Meeting will be Wed, February 23rd at 11:00 AM.
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New Funding Opportunities
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Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Sponsor Deadline: Mar 8, 2022
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Sponsor Deadline: March 28, 2022
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Sponsor Deadline: April 07, 2022
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH-NIEHS)
Sponsor Deadline: June 09, 2022
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
LOI Deadline: N/A - this is a new open and rolling call for proposals. Virtual Q&A on the third Thu of every month, 10:30am-11:15am.
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Paper & Presentation Opportunities
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“Resilience Through Healing | Healing Through Resilience”
Thursday, May 12, 2022, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Woodland Community & Senior Center
Submissions due by Feb 18th
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"Social and Environmental Disruptions in DOHaD: Successful Interventions for a Healthy Future"
August 27-31, 2022
Vancouver, Canada
Submissions due by March 7th
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Goals for Reaching Optimal Wellness (GROWell): A clinical trial protocol of a digital dietary intervention for pregnant and postpartum people with prenatal overweight or obesity. Simmons LA, Phipps JE, Overstreet C, Smith PM, Bechard E, Liu S, Walker C, Noonan D. Contemp Clin Trials, Volume 113, 2022, 106627, ISSN 1551-7144.
Sex disparate gut microbiome and metabolome perturbations precede disease progression in a mouse model of Rett syndrome. Neier K, Grant TE, Palmer RL, Chappell D, Hakam SM, Yasui KM, Rolston M, Settles ML, Hunter SS, Madany A, Ashwood P, Durbin-Johnson B, LaSalle JM, Yasui DH. Commun Biol. 2021 Dec 16;4(1):1408. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02915-3. PMID: 34916612; PMCID: PMC8677842.
Maternal diet disrupts the placenta-brain axis in a sex-specific manner. Ceasrine AM, Devlin BA, Bolton JL, Jo YC, Huynh C, Patrick B, Washington K, Joo F, Campos-Salazar AB, Lockshin ER, Murphy SK, Simmons LA, Bilbo SD. Preprint from bioRxiv, 13 Nov 2021. doi:10.1101/2021.11.12.468408. PPR: PPR419805.
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With Dr. Janine LaSalle and Dr. Ji Hong
October 15, 2021
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The UC Davis Office of Research and the UC Davis School of Medicine hosted a session with Dr. Hong Ji and Dr. Janine LaSalle for a discussion about the application of epigenetics to study the effects of environmental exposures (e.g. wildfire smoke) and maternal/ perinatal health.
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Indira D'Souza, Undergraduate Trainee, Global Disease Biology
Indira is a 3rd year undergraduate student majoring in Global Disease Biology with minors in Human Rights and Political Science. She has been with the POD Center since Spring 2020.
Indira's work as a POD trainee has included a project funded by the Public Impact Research Initiative (PIRI) to construct a large data map of publicly available child and family health data and resources for Yolo County (go here for full article) The project is also connected to her work with the HEAL Lab, where she is currently working on a systematic review on behavioral interventions for high risk pregnant people.
Indira recently co-authored "Pregnant in a pandemic: Mental wellbeing and associated healthy behaviors among pregnant people in California during COVID-19," which has been submitted to the Maternal and Child Health Journal for review (full author list: Jennifer E Phipps; Mackenzie D.M. Whipps; Indira D'Souza; Janine M LaSalle; Leigh Ann Simmons).
We are thankful to Indira for her hard work and ongoing commitment to the POD Center!
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Proposal and Grant Support
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If you need assistance finding funding for your research or support from the IRS team, contact Dr. Meg Sparling at msparling@ucdavis.edu.
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