Shanna Swan
Shanna Swan | |
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| Born | Shanna Helen Swan |
| Other names | Helen Wittenberg |
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| Spouse(s) | David A. Freedman |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Environmental epidemiology |
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| Thesis | Limiting Distributions of Random Sums of Independent Random Variables (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lucien Marie Le Cam |
Shanna Helen Swan is an American environmental and reproductive epidemiologist who is Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she has taught since April 2011.[1] She is known for her research on environmental contributions to sperm count and the male infertility crisis, and a paper she co-authored on the subject in 2017 received significant attention in both the popular media and scholarly literature, becoming the world's 26th most referenced scientific paper published that year. She has also researched the effects of environmental chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs on the development of the human reproductive tract.[2][3] In 2021, with journalist Stacey Colino, Swan co-authored the book Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, Threatening Sperm Counts, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race, which discusses declining sperm counts in men and attributes this decline to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.[4]
She was the first wife of David A. Freedman, with whom she had two children: Joshua Freedman and Deborah Freedman Lustig.[5][6]
References[]
- ^ "Top Reproductive Epidemiologist, Joins the Mount Sinai Children's Environmental Health Center". Mount Sinai Health System (Press release). 2011-04-05. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
- ^ "About - Dr. Shanna Swan". Dr. Shanna Swan. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
- ^ Corbyn, Zoë (2021-03-28). "Shanna Swan: 'Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
- ^ Trivedi, Bijal P. (2021-03-05). "The Everyday Chemicals That Might Be Leading Us to Our Extinction". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
- ^ "In Memory of David A. Freedman". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
- ^ "David A. Freedman". University of California Senate. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
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