Selected Publications

Below are a selection of the lab’s recent publications.

2025

• Preston, E. V., Lytel-Sternberg, J., Quinn, M. R., Williams, P. L., Seely, E. W., Brown, F. M., Hacker, M. R., McElrath, T. F., Cantonwine, D. E., Wylie, B. J., Powe, C. E., James-Todd, T., & Environmental Reproductive and Glucose Outcomes (ERGO) Study (2025). Associations of personal care product use during pregnancy and the postpartum period with markers of postpartum glycemic control – Results from the ERGO Study. International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 266, 114569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2025.114569
• Burdeau, J. A., Stephenson, B. J. K., Aris, I. M., Mahalingaiah, S., Chavarro, J. E., Preston, E. V., Hivert, M. F., Oken, E., Calafat, A. M., Rifas-Shiman, S. L., Zota, A. R., & James-Todd, T. (2025). Early-pregnancy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and maternal post-pregnancy weight trajectory. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 33(4), 807–816. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.24250
• Tomsho, K. S., Quinn, M. R., Preston, E. V., Adamkiewicz, G., & James-Todd, T. (2025). Exploring associations between the Phthalate Environmental Reproductive Health Literacy (PERHL) scale & biomarkers of phthalate exposure: A pilot study. Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology, 35(4), 619–624. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-024-00706-6
• Pavuk, M., Adgate, J. L., Bartell, S. M., Bell, E., Brown, L. M., Laumbach, R. J., Schaider, L. A., van T’ Erve, T. J., Bailey, J. M., Botelho, J. C., Calafat, A. M., Cutler, C. R., Forand, S., Graber, J. M., James-Todd, T., Jeddy, Z., Kato, K., Mowry, N., Nair, A. S., Ohman-Strickland, P., … Bove, F. J. (2025). Multi-site study of communities with PFAS-contaminated drinking water: Methods, demographics, and PFAS serum concentrations. Environment international, 202, 109589. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109589

2024

• Tomsho, K. S., Quinn, M. R., Wang, Z., Preston, E. V., Adamkiewicz, G., Joseph, N. T., Wylie, B. J., & James-Todd, T. (2024). Improving the Health and Environmental Health Literacy of Professionals: Evaluating the Effect of a Virtual Intervention on Phthalate Environmental Health Literacy. International journal of environmental research and public health, 21(12), 1571. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21121571
• James-Todd, T., Tomsho, K. S., Gaston, S. A., Elliott, K. C., & Jackson, C. L. (2024). Asking Why Is Necessary to Address Health Disparities: A Critical Approach for Solution-Oriented Environmental Epidemiological Research. Environmental health perspectives, 132(11), 115001. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP14513
• Chan, M., Parikh, S., Willcocks, E., Lytel-Sternberg, J., Castro, E., Tabb, L. P., Schwartz, J., & James-Todd, T. (2024). Associations between Historical Redlining and the Risk of Pregnancy Complications and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Massachusetts, 1995-2015. Journal of women’s health (2002), 33(10), 1308–1317. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2024.0031
• Preston, E. V., Quinn, M. R., Williams, P. L., McElrath, T. F., Cantonwine, D. E., Seely, E. W., Wylie, B. J., Hacker, M. R., O’Brien, K., Brown, F. M., Powe, C. E., Bellavia, A., Wang, Z., Tomsho, K. S., Hauser, R., James-Todd, T., & Environmental Reproductive and Glucose Outcomes (ERGO) Study (2024). Cohort profile: the Environmental Reproductive and Glucose Outcomes (ERGO) Study (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) – a prospective pregnancy cohort study of the impacts of environmental exposures on parental cardiometabolic health. BMJ open, 14(5), e079782. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079782

2023

• Chan, M., Parikh, S., Shyr, D., Shamasunder, B., Adamkiewicz, G., & James-Todd, T. (2023). Evaluating Neighborhood-Level Differences in Hair Product Safety by Environmental Working Group Ratings among Retailers in Boston, Massachusetts. Environmental health perspectives, 131(9), 97002. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10653
• Casey, J. A., Daouda, M., Babadi, R. S., Do, V., Flores, N. M., Berzansky, I., González, D. J. X., Van Horne, Y. O., & James-Todd, T. (2023). Methods in Public Health Environmental Justice Research: a Scoping Review from 2018 to 2021. Current environmental health reports, 10(3), 312–336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-023-00406-7
• Chan, M., Preston, E. V., Fruh, V., Quinn, M. R., Hacker, M. R., Wylie, B. J., O’Brien, K., Williams, P. L., Hauser, R., James-Todd, T., & Mahalingaiah, S. (2023). Use of personal care products during pregnancy and birth outcomes – A pilot study. Environmental research, 225, 115583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115583
• Wang, Z., Zhang, C., Williams, P. L., Bellavia, A., Wylie, B. J., Kannan, K., Bloom, M. S., Hunt, K. J., & James-Todd, T. (2024). Racial and ethnic disparities in preterm birth: a mediation analysis incorporating mixtures of polybrominated diphenyl ethers. Frontiers in reproductive health, 5, 1285444. https://doi.org/10.3389/frph.2023.1285444