Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D.

Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D.

Contact Information

Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
17 East 102 Street
Floor 3 West, Room D3-135
New York, NY 10029

Research Bio

Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Swan is also a Professor in Environmental Medicine. She received an M.S. in Biostatistics from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California-Berkeley. From 1981 to 1998, she served as Chief of the Reproductive Epidemiology Section at the California Department of Health Services.



Dr. Swan is known for her work on the impact of environmental exposures on male and female reproductive health and has served on the National Academy of Science's Committee on Hormone-Related Toxicants. Since 1998, she has been Principal Investigator of the Study for Future Families, a multi-center pregnancy cohort study examining environmental causes of geographic variation in reproductive health endpoints in men, women and children.

Awards & Honors

Best Paper of the Year | Environmental Health Perspectives 2009
Chair | Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors 2008
JENIFER ALTMAN UPSTREAM FOR SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AWARD for outstanding dedication to scientific integrity in environmental health sciences and the pursuit of science in the public interest. 2005

Recent Journal Articles

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2010
Jørgensen, N; Liu, F; Andersson, AM; Vierula, M; Irvine, S; Jouannet, P; Brazil, C; Drobnis, EZ; Jensen, TK; Overstreet, JW; Redmon, JB; Sparks, A; Toppari, J; Wang, C; Skakkebæk, NE; Swan, SH. "Sperm count does not increase linearly with Inhibin-B: An analysis of fertile European and US men". Int J Andrology. 2010; .
2010
Jensen, TK; Skakkebaek, NE; Asklund, C; Swan, SH; Rasmussen, S; Jorgensen, J. "Caffeine intake and semen quality: A study of 2,554 Danish men from the general population". Amer J Epidemiol. 2010; .
2010
Mendiola J, Jørgensen N, Andersson A-M, Calafat AM, Ye X, Redmon JB, Swan SH. "Are Environmental Levels of Bisphenol A Associated with Reproductive Function in Fertile Men?". Environ Health Perspect. 2010; .
2010
Mendiola J, Jørgensen N, Andersson A-M, Calafat A-M, Silva MJ, Redmon JB, Sparks A, Drobnis EZ, Wang C, Liu F, Swan SH. "Associations between urinary metabolites of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and reproductive hormones in fertile men". Int J Andrology. 2010; .
2009
Swan, SH; Liu, F; Hines, M; Kruse, RL; Wang, C; Redmon, JB; Sparks, A; Weiss, B. "Prenatal phthalate exposure and reduced masculine play in boys". Int J Androl. 2009; .

Education

PhD | Statistics | Univ of Cal Berkeley1963
MS | Statistics | Columbia University1959
BS | Mathematics | Cuny City College1957