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Frederica P. Perera

Frederica P. Perera

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Citations
49543
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3772
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Overview

Frederica P. Perera is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pollution, Speech and Hearing, and Physiology.

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as Air Quality and Health Impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Birth, Development, and Health, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, Energy and Environment Impacts, Noise Effects and Management, and Asthma and respiratory diseases.

Frederica P. Perera has contributed extensively to academic literature, with 73 publications related to Environmental Science and 37 in Medicine. They have been frequently published in venues such as Environmental Research, ISEE Conference Abstracts, UNC Libraries, Environmental Health Perspectives, and the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium, 2022, JAMA Pediatrics
  • Prenatal air pollution exposure and neurodevelopment: A review and blueprint for a harmonized approach within ECHO, 2020, Environmental Research
  • The association between prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and childhood neurodevelopment, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Prenatal exposure to air pollution is associated with altered brain structure, function, and metabolism in childhood, 2022, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Prenatal and early childhood exposure to phthalates and childhood behavior at age 7 years, 2020, Environment International

Frederica P. Perera has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include Julie B. Herbstman, Rachel L. Miller, Andrew Rundle, Virginia Rauh, and Lori Hoepner.

Best Publications

  • The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

    Philip J Landrigan;Richard Fuller;Nereus J R Acosta;Olusoji Adeyi

  • Pollution from Fossil-Fuel Combustion is the Leading Environmental Threat to Global Pediatric Health and Equity: Solutions Exist

    Frederica P. Perera

  • Environment and Cancer: Who Are Susceptible?

    Frederica P. Perera

  • Impact of Prenatal Chlorpyrifos Exposure on Neurodevelopment in the First 3 Years of Life Among Inner-City Children

    Virginia A. Rauh;Robin Garfinkel;Frederica P. Perera;Howard F. Andrews

  • PRENATAL EXPOSURE TO PBDES AND NEURODEVELOPMENT

    Julie B. Herbstman;Andreas Sjödin;Matthew Kurzon;Sally A. Lederman

  • Effects of transplacental exposure to environmental pollutants on birth outcomes in a multiethnic population.

    Frederica P. Perera;Virginia Rauh;Wei Yann Tsai;Patrick Kinney

  • Prenatal environmental exposures, epigenetics, and disease.

    Frederica Perera;Julie Herbstman

  • Seven-Year Neurodevelopmental Scores and Prenatal Exposure to Chlorpyrifos, a Common Agricultural Pesticide

    Virginia Rauh;Srikesh Arunajadai;Megan Horton;Frederica Perera

  • Prenatal Insecticide Exposures and Birth Weight and Length among an Urban Minority Cohort

    Robin M. Whyatt;Virginia Rauh;Dana B. Barr;David E. Camann

  • Effect of prenatal exposure to airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on neurodevelopment in the first 3 years of life among inner-city children.

    Frederica P. Perera;Virginia Rauh;Robin M. Whyatt;Wei Yann Tsai;Wei Yann Tsai

  • Brain anomalies in children exposed prenatally to a common organophosphate pesticide.

    Virginia A. Rauh;Frederica P. Perera;Megan K. Horton;Robin M. Whyatt

  • Sex-specific epigenetic disruption and behavioral changes following low-dose in utero bisphenol A exposure

    Marija Kundakovic;Kathryn Gudsnuk;Becca Franks;Jesus Madrid

  • Prenatal exposure to antibiotics, cesarean section and risk of childhood obesity

    N T Mueller;R Whyatt;L Hoepner;S Oberfield

  • Prenatal airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure and child IQ at age 5 years.

    Frederica P. Perera;Zhigang Li;Robin Whyatt;Lori Hoepner

  • Relation of DNA Methylation of 5′-CpG Island of ACSL3 to Transplacental Exposure to Airborne Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Childhood Asthma

    Frederica Perera;Wan Yee Tang;Julie Herbstman;Deliang Tang

  • Health and environmental consequences of the world trade center disaster.

    Philip J Landrigan;Paul J Lioy;George Thurston;Gertrud Berkowitz

  • Prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure and child behavior at age 6-7 years.

    Frederica P. Perera;Deliang Tang;Shuang Wang;Julia Vishnevetsky

  • Molecular epidemiologic research on the effects of environmental pollutants on the fetus.

    F P Perera;W Jedrychowski;V Rauh;R M Whyatt

  • Molecular Epidemiology: Insights Into Cancer Susceptibility, Risk Assessment, and Prevention

    Frederica P. Perera

  • Molecular epidemiology and carcinogen-DNA adduct detection: New approaches to studies of human cancer causation

    Frederica P. Perera;I.Bernard Weinstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel L. Miller
Rachel L. Miller Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Deliang Tang
Deliang Tang Columbia University
Robin M. Whyatt
Robin M. Whyatt Columbia University
Virginia Rauh
Virginia Rauh Columbia University
Andrew Rundle
Andrew Rundle Columbia University
Matthew S. Perzanowski
Matthew S. Perzanowski Columbia University
David Camann
David Camann Southwest Research Institute
Patrick L. Kinney
Patrick L. Kinney Boston University
John D. Spengler
John D. Spengler Harvard University
Steven N. Chillrud
Steven N. Chillrud Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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