Search enhanced by Google
Irva Hertz-Picciotto, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Chief, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health
Director, Environmental Health Sciences Center
Irva Hertz-Picciotto is not currently accepting new patients. For assistance finding a UC Davis doctor, please call 800-2-UCDAVIS (800-282-3284).
Specialties
Environmental and Occupational Health
Epidemiologic Methods
Department
Locations and Contact
UC Davis School of Medicine
UC Davis School of Medicine - Medical Sciences 1C
Davis, CA 95616
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Hertz-Picciotto's research addresses environmental factors influences on adverse health outcomes and/or resilience and improved health or development, with major focus on consequences of exposures during pregnancy, such as birth outcomes and later risks for developing autism or other neurobehavioral challenges. She recently turned her attention to current ecologic threats to human well-being including wildfires, extreme weather, and their impacts on physical and mental health. In 2015 she launched the UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center bringing together over 75 researchers from six UC Davis Colleges and Schools for innovative and highly interdisciplinary science, technology development, and translation of environmental health research results for community partners and potential policy relevance.
Division
Environmental and Occupational Health
Center/Program Affiliation
Undergraduate School
B.A., Mathematics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA 1970
Other School
M.P.H., Epidemiology, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley CA 1984
Other School
M.A., Biostatistics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley CA 1985
Other School
Ph.D., Epidemiology, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley CA1989
Abraham Lilienfeld Student Prize Paper, Best Dissertation of the Year, Society for Epidemiologic Research, 1988,
Young Investigator Program Awardee, National Academy of Sciences, 1997,
Distinguished Lecturer in Occupational and Environmental Cancer, National Cancer Institute, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, 2004,
Lifetime Achievement Award: John Goldsmith Award for Sustained and Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Epidemiology, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, 2011,
Plenary Invited Presentation as Chair of the IOM Committee, San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 2011,