Research Bio
Ralph Catalano is a Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley. Catalano studies the implications of population stressors for gestation. His best known work focuses on the economy as stressor and fetal death as an outcome. The work shows that environmental stressors affect which gestations yield a live birth and, therefore, the health of birth cohorts that sum into the populations for which public health professionals take responsibility.
Research Expertise and Interest
public health, mental health services, economic antecendents, stress related illness
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Latina Mothers Experienced Jump in Preterm Births After 2016 Election
Latina mothers living in the United States experienced a significant jump in preterm births in the nine months following the Nov. 8, 2016, election, according to a study by researchers at UC Berkeley and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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July 19, 2019
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