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Research
Latest papers
Genetic ancestry influences body shape and obesity risk in Latin American populations.
Scientific reports · 2025
Who benefits most from a prenatal HEPA filter air cleaner intervention on childhood cognitive development? The UGAAR randomized controlled trial.
Environmental research · 2023
Early life risk and resiliency factors and their influences on developmental outcomes and disease pathways: a rapid evidence review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2021
Latest funding
- $408,333
Team British Columbia [I-HeLTI NUU-CHAH-NULTH TRIBAL COUNCIL], of Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectory Initiative (I-HeLTI)
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $140,000
Integrative statistical modeling of socio-ecological factors and biomarkers to quantify the pace of reproductive aging and cardiometabolic risk in peri- and post-menopausal women
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
- $906,526
Influence of socioecological factors on the pace of reproductive aging and the risk of cardiometabolic diseases in peri- and post-menopause - A reproductive life course study
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
8 publications.
Genetic ancestry influences body shape and obesity risk in Latin American populations.
Trujillo-Jiménez MA, Pérez LO, Paschetta C, Ramallo V, Ruderman A, Useglio M, Toledo-Margalef P, Morales L, Freire-Gómez C, Navarro P, De Azevedo S, Pazos B, Teodoroff T, Bortolini MC, Acuña-Alonzo V, Canizales-Quinteros S, Poletti G, Gallo C, Rothhammer F, Rojas W, Ruiz-Linares A, Gasaneo S, Gasaneo G, Rowlands A, Nepomnaschy P, Delrieux C, Gonzalez-José R
Who benefits most from a prenatal HEPA filter air cleaner intervention on childhood cognitive development? The UGAAR randomized controlled trial.
Ulziikhuu B, Gombojav E, Banzrai C, Batsukh S, Enkhtuya E, Boldbaatar B, Bellinger DC, Lanphear BP, McCandless LC, Nepomnaschy P, Salvante K, Weinberg J, Allen RW
Early life risk and resiliency factors and their influences on developmental outcomes and disease pathways: a rapid evidence review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Abdul-Hussein A, Kareem A, Tewari S, Bergeron J, Briollais L, Challis JRG, Davidge ST, Delrieux C, Fortier I, Goldowitz D, Nepomnaschy P, Wazana A, Connor KL
Postpartum amenorrhea duration by sex of the newborn in two natural fertility populations.
Hoi AG, Daiy K, Altman RM, Venners S, Valeggia C, Nepomnaschy P
The evolutionary biology of endometriosis.
Dinsdale N, Nepomnaschy P, Crespi B
Protocol for a cluster randomised trial evaluating a multifaceted intervention starting preconceptionally—Early Interventions to Support Trajectories for Healthy Life in India (EINSTEIN): a Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) Study
Kumaran K, Krishnaveni GV, Suryanarayana KG, Prasad MP, Belavendra A, Atkinson S, Balasubramaniam R, Bandsma RHJ, Bhutta ZA, Chandak GR
Breastfeeding Duration and the Social Learning of Infant Feeding Knowledge in Two Maya Communities.
McKerracher LJ, Nepomnaschy P, Altman RM, Sellen D, Collard M
The ex-pat effect: presence of recent Western immigrants is associated with changes in age at first birth and birth rate in a Maya population from rural Guatemala.
McKerracher L, Collard M, Altman R, Richards M, Nepomnaschy P
Team British Columbia [I-HeLTI NUU-CHAH-NULTH TRIBAL COUNCIL], of Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectory Initiative (I-HeLTI)
Principal investigators: Lucas, Lynnette J; Nepomnaschy, Pablo A; Reading, Jeffrey L; Venners, Scott; Watts, Jeannette C
Keywords: Cardio-Metabolic Conditions; Child Development; Child Health; Developmental Origins Of Health And Disease; Indigenous Health; Interventions; Mental Health; Peri-Conceptional Cohort; Program Evaluation; Two-Eyed Seeing
Integrative statistical modeling of socio-ecological factors and biomarkers to quantify the pace of reproductive aging and cardiometabolic risk in peri- and post-menopausal women
Principal investigators: Vishnyakova, Olga
Keywords: Aging-Related Health Outcomes; Biological Aging; Cardiometabolic Disorders; Machine Learning; Menopause; Mixed Models; Perimenopause; Reproductive Aging; Stress Axis - Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis; Women'S Reproductive Health
Influence of socioecological factors on the pace of reproductive aging and the risk of cardiometabolic diseases in peri- and post-menopause - A reproductive life course study
Principal investigators: Nepomnaschy, Pablo A; Jones, Meaghan J
Keywords: Aging-Related Health Outcomes; Biological Aging; Cardiometabolic Disorders; Machine Learning; Menopause; Mixed Models; Perimenopause; Reproductive Aging; Stress Axis - Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis; Women'S Reproductive Health
Nuu-chah-nulth Way of Life Cross-Sectional Survey for the Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (I-HeLTI) Project, Examining the Links between Traditional Nuu-chah-nulth Child Development Concepts and the Development of Non-Communicable Diseases including Cardiometabolic diseases and Mental Illnesses.
Principal investigators: MacGregor, Megan A
Keywords: Causal Inference; Community-Led Research; Cross Sectional Survey; Indigenous Health; Intergenerational; Knowledge Translation; Strengths-Based Approach; Traditional Parenting
Hishuk-ish tsawalk (everything is one, everything is connected): Restoring healthy family systems in Indigenous communities
Principal investigators: Lucas, Lynnette J; Bell, Rhonda C; Bill, Lea; Montesanti, Stephanie R; Nepomnaschy, Pablo A; Oster, Richard T; Reading, Jeffrey L; Titone, Sebastien; Venners, Scott; Waddell, Charlotte A; Watts, Jeannette C
Keywords: Child Development; Dohad; Indigenous Health; Life Course; Maternal And Child Health; Non-Communicable Diseases; Nutrition; Resilience; Social And Biological Determinants Of Health And Development; Stress And Trauma
Early Interventions to Support Trajectories for Healthy Life in India (EINSTEIN)
Principal investigators: Matthews, Stephen G; Sellen, Daniel W; CHANDAK, GIRIRAJ R; Comelli, Elena M; Krishnaveni, Ghattu V; Kumaran, Kalyanaraman; Shah, Prakeshkumar; Suryanarayana, Kumar G; Wade, Mark
Keywords: Cardiometabolic Outcome; Child; Cohort Studies; Dohad; India; Intervention; Lifecourse; Mental Health Outcome; Preconception; Pregnancy
Seeking utziläj k'aslem (a good life) for women: Intersectionality, the gender agenda and Mayan women's strategies for promoting gender equity
Principal investigators: Berry, Nicole
Keywords: intersectonality; feminism; gender; gender and development; gender equity; community-based participatory research; qualitative research; anthropology; Guatemala
Defining the Impact of Socio-Structural Determinants of Health on Immune Activation and Inflammation in Adolescents and Youth Adults in a Vulnerable Environment
Principal investigators: Kaida, Angela K; Brockman, Mark A
Keywords: Adolescents And Young Adults; Epigenetics; Global Health; Immune Activation; Inflammation; Multi-Disciplinary; Social Determinants Of Health; Social Inequities And Health
The THRIVE collaborative: an initiative to improve our understanding of the factors that determine resiliency and risk using a DOHaD framework
Principal investigators: Connor, Kristin L
Keywords: Behavioural And Cognitive Development; Dohad; Early Life Exposures; Growth And Development; Interdisciplinary Health; Pregnancy; Public And Population Health; Resiliency; Social Determinants Of Health
Hishuk-ish tsawalk (everything is one, everything is connected): Using two-eyed seeing to optimize healthy early life trajectories for Indigenous Peoples
Principal investigators: Lucas, Lynnette J; Nepomnaschy, Pablo A; Reading, Jeffrey L; Venners, Scott; Waddell, Charlotte A; Watts, Jeannette C
Keywords: Cardio-Metabolic Conditions; Child Development; Child Health; Developmental Origins Of Health And Disease; Indigenous Health; Interventions; Mental Health; Peri-Conceptional Cohort; Program Evaluation; Two-Eyed Seeing
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Health Services
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Nutritional Sciences
- Medical Genetics
- Biostatistics Division
- Centre for Global Health Research
- Other
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Patrick McGowan
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Michael Richards
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Stephanie Atkinson
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Laurent Briollais
Biostatistics Division
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Stephen Lye
Endocrinology and Metabolism
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Cindy-Lee Dennis
Nutritional Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Jacquetta Trasler
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Kang Lee
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Prabhat Jha
Centre for Global Health Research
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Daniel Goldowitz
Medical Genetics
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Ashley Wazana
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Isabel Fortier
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Scott Venners
Health Services
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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