Areas of Interest:
Global health; reproductive, perinatal, child and adolescent health; environmental epidemiology; physical (air pollution, pesticides, toxics) and social environment; developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD); early life adversity; environmental equity; urban health; climate change; nutrition ecology; epidemiologic methods.
Dr. von Ehrenstein’s interdisciplinary research examines environmental factors considering the interplay with social, behavioral and biological factors in relation to health and disease. She focuses the prenatal period to adolescence, with a life course perspective. Her work aims at improving population health and sustainability, especially in low resource settings and communities in different countries.