Nina Holland University of California, Berkeley, United States
Dr. Holland
is a Professor at the School of Public Health (SPH) and a Director of the SPH
Biorepository and the Children’s Environmental Health Laboratory at the
University of California, Berkeley since 1993.
She has a background in genetics with extensive experience in molecular
epidemiology, cytogenetics and epigenetics. Dr.Holland’s main scientific
interest is in biomarkers of children’s environmental health and the
relationship of early life exposures with obesity, neurodevelopment and other
health outcomes. Since 1998, she has
been involved with the CHAMACOS, a Mexican-American birth cohort study from
Salinas Valley, CA. She has been also a co-PI for the longitudinal study of air
pollution in children (CHAPS) for the
last 20 years. SPH Biorepository was established in 2003 and contains more than
500,000 biological and environmental samples from 46 completed and ongoing
studies reflecting collaboration with the University of California, San
Francisco, Children’s Hospital, Oakland, Public Health Institute, Stanford
University and many other research organizations in the United States and
abroad. Dr. Holland has been an invited speaker at many national and
international meetings and has organized and chaired several Symposiums on
Molecular Epidemiology of Children’s Environmental Health and/or Environmental
Epigenetics. She is a founding member of the International Consortium on
Micronucleus Assay in Human Populations (HUMN, since 1997), and an active
participant in the Pregnancy and Children Epigenetics (PACE, since 2013)
consortium. Dr. Holland served on many NIH and EPA grant review sections. She
has published more than 200 papers and book chapters.
