Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Pediatrics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Rosalind Wright is the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Life Course Health Research in the Departments of Pediatrics and Environmental Medicine & Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), a physician and internationally recognized life course epidemiologist with transdisciplinary training in perinatal environmental programming of chronic disease risk. Dr. Wright is also the founding Co-Director of the Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomic Research at the ISMMS.

Dr. Wright has a primary interest in early life (prenatal and early childhood) predictors of developmental disorders including asthma and lung development, sleep, and neurobehavioral development. A particular focus of her research has been on the implementation of studies considering the role of social (e.g., psychosocial stress, trauma, other socioeconomic risk factors), nutritional, and physical (e.g., air pollution, chemical, allergens) environmental factors in explaining health disparities among lower-SES ethnically mixed populations. Her group also has a growing interest in elucidating sex-specific programming effects of environmental toxins. Her research program also explores underlying mechanisms through which chemical and non-chemical stressors program adverse health and development by incorporating biomarkers of physiological pathways (e.g., altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning, shifts in maturation of the immune system, disruption of the autonomic nervous system, telomeres, mitochondriomics, epigenetics, and more recently extracellular vesicles). Dr. Wright is also Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences and the Directing Principle Investigator of the Mount Sinai Health System Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) which provides support for the necessary regulatory and bioinformatics infrastructure to enable translational sciences and research across the institution.