Caitlin G Howe, PhD
Title(s)
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor (University of Southern California)
Department(s)
Epidemiology
Education
Columbia University (PhD), 2016
Pomona College (BA), 2009
Programs
Quantitative Biomedical Sciences
Contact Information
1 Medical Center Drive
Lebanon NH 03766
Email: Caitlin.G.Howe@Dartmouth.edu
Professional Interests
Dr. Howe’s research focuses on toxic metal exposures and their impacts on maternal and child health, with a particular interest in effects on early life growth and cardiometabolic health. Additional areas of interest include epigenetic mediators of toxicant exposures and metals toxicity in the context of nutritional status and complex environmental mixtures.
Grant Information
Prenatal Metal Mixtures, Fetal Growth, and the Role of MicroRNAs (NIEHS)
Biography
Professor Howe received her BA in 2009 from Pomona College, with a major in Biology and a minor in Spanish. After graduating, she worked at Fox Chase Cancer Center in an ovarian cancer research lab. She subsequently pursued a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. After receiving her PhD in 2016, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California. In 2020, she was appointed to the faculty at the Geisel School of Medicine.
Maternal Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Pregnancy and Offspring Blood Pressure at Age 2 to 18 Years. Association of Deep Learning-Derived Histologic Features of Placental Chorionic Villi with Maternal and Infant Characteristics in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study. Prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance mixtures and weight for length from birth to 12 months: The New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study. Optimizing Protocols for MicroRNA Profiling of Infant and Toddler Stool. An assessment of organophosphate ester mixtures and the placental transcriptome. Gestational Blood Pressure Trajectories and 5-Year Postpartum Hypertension Risk in the MADRES Study. Prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and blood pressure trajectories in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study. Maternal diet quality and circulating extracellular vesicle and particle miRNA during pregnancy. Associations between human milk EV-miRNAs and oligosaccharide concentrations in human milk. Maternal glucose levels and late pregnancy circulating extracellular vesicle and particle miRNAs in the MADRES pregnancy cohort. |
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