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Tracey J. Woodruff

Tracey J. Woodruff

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
82
Citations
24634
World Ranking
882
National Ranking
384

Overview

Tracey J. Woodruff is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a notable emphasis on topics intersecting health and toxicology.

The main fields of study Woodruff contributes to include Environmental Science, with subfields that cover Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Sociology and Political Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Key topics in their work are:

  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities

Woodruff has published extensively, including recent papers such as:

  • Global, regional, and national burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke attributable to exposure to long working hours for 194 countries, 2000-2016: A systematic analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (2021, Environment International)
  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on ischaemic heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (2020, Environment International)
  • The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort (2023, American Journal of Epidemiology)
  • Defining the Scope of Exposome Studies and Research Needs from a Multidisciplinary Perspective (2021, Environmental Science & Technology Letters)
  • Climate change, women's health, and the role of obstetricians and gynecologists in leadership (2021, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Woodruff include:

  • Rachel Morello-Frosch
  • Amy Padula
  • Stephanie M. Eick
  • Dana E. Goin
  • Dimitri Abrahamsson

Woodruff's work has appeared in numerous publication venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Health
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Public Health Protection: A Statement of Principles from The Endocrine Society

    R. Thomas Zoeller;T. R. Brown;L. L. Doan;A. C. Gore

  • Environmental chemicals in pregnant women in the United States: NHANES 2003-2004.

    Tracey J. Woodruff;Ami R. Zota;Jackie M. Schwartz

  • State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012. Summary for Decision-Makers

    Georg Becher;Åke Bergman;Poul Bjerregaard;Riana Bornman

  • Consensus on the key characteristics of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a basis for hazard identification.

    Michele A. La Merrill;Laura N. Vandenberg;Martyn T. Smith;William Goodson

  • Medical hypothesis: xenoestrogens as preventable causes of breast cancer.

    D L Davis;H L Bradlow;M Wolff;T Woodruff

  • Temporal trends in phthalate exposures: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001-2010.

    Ami R. Zota;Antonia M. Calafat;Tracey J. Woodruff

  • Female reproductive disorders: the roles of endocrine-disrupting compounds and developmental timing.

    D. Andrew Crain;Sarah J. Janssen;Thea M. Edwards;Jerrold Heindel

  • The relationship between selected causes of postneonatal infant mortality and particulate air pollution in the United States.

    Tracey J. Woodruff;Jeanne Grillo;Kenneth C. Schoendorf

  • Maternal Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution and Term Birth Weight: A Multi-Country Evaluation of Effect and Heterogeneity

    Payam Dadvand;Jennifer Parker;Michelle L. Bell;Matteo Bonzini

  • The Navigation Guide systematic review methodology: a rigorous and transparent method for translating environmental health science into better health outcomes.

    Tracey J. Woodruff;Patrice Sutton

  • Environmental Exposures and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Review of the Science

    Karen Perry Stillerman;Donald R. Mattison;Linda C. Giudice;Tracey J. Woodruff

  • The Navigation Guide—Evidence-Based Medicine Meets Environmental Health: Systematic Review of Human Evidence for PFOA Effects on Fetal Growth

    Erica Koustas;Juleen Lam;Patrice Sutton;Paula I. Johnson

  • Dose–Response Relationship of Prenatal Mercury Exposure and IQ: An Integrative Analysis of Epidemiologic Data

    Daniel A. Axelrad;David C. Bellinger;Louise Marie Ryan;Tracey J. Woodruff

  • Global, regional, and national burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke attributable to exposure to long working hours for 194 countries, 2000-2016: A systematic analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury.

    Frank Pega;Bálint Náfrádi;Natalie C Momen;Yuka Ujita

  • Meeting report: Atmospheric pollution and human reproduction

    Rémy Slama;Lyndsey Darrow;Jennifer Parker;Tracey J. Woodruff

  • The Impact of Endocrine Disruption: A Consensus Statement on the State of the Science

    Åke Bergman;Jerrold J. Heindel;Tim Kasten;Karen A Kidd

  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics opinion on reproductive health impacts of exposure to toxic environmental chemicals

    Gian Carlo Di Renzo;Jeanne A. Conry;Jennifer Blake;Mark S. DeFrancesco

  • Dietary exposures to food contaminants across the United States.

    Charlotte P. Dougherty;Sarah Henricks Holtz;Joseph C. Reinert;Lily Panyacosit

  • Estimated daily phthalate exposures in a population of mothers of male infants exhibiting reduced anogenital distance.

    Kevin Marsee;Tracey J. Woodruff;Daniel A. Axelrad;Antonia M. Calafat

  • GRADE: Assessing the quality of evidence in environmental and occupational health.

    Rebecca L. Morgan;Kristina A. Thayer;Lisa Bero;Nigel Bruce

  • Disparities in exposure to air pollution during pregnancy.

    Tracey J Woodruff;Jennifer D Parker;Amy D Kyle;Kenneth C Schoendorf

  • Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

    Christopher J. Portier;Bruce K Armstrong;Bruce C Baguley;Xaver Baur

  • Associations between prenatal maternal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and birth outcomes among pregnant women in San Francisco

    Stephanie M. Eick;Elizabeth K. Hom Thepaksorn;Monika A. Izano;Lara J. Cushing

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Morello-Frosch
Rachel Morello-Frosch University of California, Berkeley
Linda C. Giudice
Linda C. Giudice University of California, San Francisco
Lisa Bero
Lisa Bero University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
David Q. Rich
David Q. Rich University of Rochester Medical Center
David C. Bellinger
David C. Bellinger Boston Children's Hospital
Edo D. Pellizzari
Edo D. Pellizzari Research Triangle Park Foundation
Andreas Kortenkamp
Andreas Kortenkamp Brunel University London
Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan University at Albany, State University of New York
Michelle L. Bell
Michelle L. Bell Yale University
Deborah H. Bennett
Deborah H. Bennett University of California, Davis

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