Frederica Perera
Frederica Perera (born 1941) is an American
environmental health scientist and the founder of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research career has focused on identifying and preventing harm to children from prenatal and early childhood exposure to environmental chemicals and
pollutants. She is internationally recognized for pioneering the field of
molecular epidemiology, incorporating molecular techniques into epidemiological studies to measure biologic doses, preclinical responses and susceptibility to toxic exposure.
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