Audrey Gaskins
Associate Professor
Faculty, Epidemiology
Jointly Appointed, Environmental Health
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My research focuses on understanding the relation of environmental, dietary, and lifestyle factors with reproductive health in men and women. Although the outcomes I study are vast, ranging from pubertal development to reproductive senescence, the majority of my work is focused on fertility. An additional motivation underlying my research is better understanding the biological mechanisms through which diet and environmental exposures affect fertility, as this strengthens the plausibility of associations and helps establish causality. Therefore, much of my work has focused on couples undergoing assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in whom routine biospecimens are collected and many key reproductive processes are externalized, enabling the study of intermediate outcomes to examine potential biological mediators.
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta , GA 30322
1518-002-3BB (SPH: Epidemiology)
Phone: 404-727-5409
Fax: 404-727-8737
Areas of Interest
- Air Pollution
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology
- Maternal and Child Health
- Nutrition
- Obesity Prevention
- Reproductive Health
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering 2008, Duke University
- Doctor of Science 2014, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Courses Taught
- EPI 798R: Pre-candidacy Research
- EPI 799R: Research
Affiliations & Activities
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- Society for Epidemiologic Research
- International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
- Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Research
- American Society of Nutrition
Publications
- Gaskins AJ, Nassan FL, Chiu YH, Arvizu M, Williams PL, Keller MG, Souter I, Hauser R, Chavarro JE., 2019, Dietary patterns and outcomes of assisted reproduction, Am J Obstet Gynecol, 220,
- Gaskins AJ, Fong KC, Abu Awad Y, Di Q, Mínguez-Alarcón L, Chavarro JE, Ford JB, Coull BA, Schwartz J, Kloog I, Souter I, Hauser R, Laden F., 2019, Time-Varying Exposure to Air Pollution and Outcomes of in Vitro Fertilization among Couples from a Fertility Clinic, Environ Health Perspect, 127,
- Gaskins AJ, Missmer SA, Rich-Edwards JW, Williams PL, Souter I, Chavarro JE, 2018, Demographic, lifestyle, and reproductive risk factors for ectopic pregnancy, Fertil Steril, 110, 1328-1337
- Gaskins AJ, Chavarro JE, 2018, Diet and fertility: a review, Am J Obstet Gynecol, 218, 379-389
- Gaskins AJ, 2018, Moving the science forward on dietary patterns and male fertility, Fertil Steril, 109, 783
- Gaskins AJ, Sundaram R, Buck Louis GM, Chavarro JE, 2018, Predictors of Sexual Intercourse Frequency Among Couples Trying to Conceive, J Sex Med, 15, 519-528
- Gaskins AJ, 2018, Recent advances in understanding the relationship between long- and short-term weight change and fertility, F1000Res, Oct 26, 7
- Nassan FL, Chavarro JE, Mínguez-Alarcón L, Williams PL, Tanrikut C, Ford JB, Dadd R, Perry MJ, Hauser R, Gaskins AJ, 2018, Residential distance to major roadways and semen quality, sperm DNA integrity, chromosomal disomy, and serum reproductive hormones among men attending a fertility clinic., Int J Hyg Environ Health, 221, 830-837
- Gaskins AJ, Hart JE, Mínguez-Alarcón L, Chavarro JE, Laden F, Coull BA, Ford JB, Souter I, Hauser R., 2018, Residential proximity to major roadways and traffic in relation to outcomes of in vitro fertilization., Environ Int, 115, 239-246
- Gaskins AJ, Sundaram R, Buck Louis GM, Chavarro JE, 2018, Seafood Intake, Sexual Activity, and Time to Pregnancy, J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 103, 2680-2688
- Gaskins AJ, Pereira A, Quintiliano D, Shepherd JA, Uauy R, Corvalán C, Michels KB, 2017, Dairy intake in relation to breast and pubertal development in Chilean girls, Am J Clin Nutr, 105, 1166-1175
- Messerlian C, Gaskins AJ, 2017, Epidemiologic Approaches for Studying Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Design, Methods, Analysis and Interpretation, Curr Epidemiol Rep, 4, 124-132