Brenda Eskenazi, PhD
Center for Children's Environmental Health Research
School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley

Brenda Eskenazi is a professor of maternal and child health and epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. She directs the Center of Excellence in Children's Environmental Health Research at Berkeley, where she investigates pesticide exposure and its potential health effects in farmworker children and develops interventions to prevent exposure. Eskenazi is a neuropsychologist and epidemiologist whose long-standing research interest has been the effect of environmental exposures on male and female fertility, pregnancy, and children's health. She has studied the health effects of numerous reproductive toxicants, including lead, environmental tobacco smoke, dioxin, and pesticides as well as other environmental agents. She is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Epidemiology and the Journal of Children's Health and is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology.

Eskenazi has contributed widely to the field of children's environmental health, including the Surgeon General's report on smoking and women's health, the World Health Organization's Tobacco-Free Initiative report on environmental tobacco smoke, and the United States-Vietnam Committee on the Human Health and Environmental Exposures of Agent Orange and Dioxin in Vietnam. She also served for nearly a decade on the State of California's Scientific Advisory Board for the Toxics Initiative (Proposition 65), which aimed to identify chemicals that were reproductive or developmental toxicants. Eskenazi currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Children's Health Environmental Coalition and the Study Design Working Group of the National Children's Study.