CEHS Graduate Student

Mia V. Gallo

Young Adult Well-Being Study (YAWBS) Project Manager

MS, Epidemiology, University at Albany

University at Albany
Arts & Sciences 101
Albany, NY 12222
518-442-4720 ph / 518-442-4563 fax
mvgallo@albany.edu

Research Interests:

I am a Ph.D. student in the anthropology department. My dissertation explores the effects of persistent organic pollutants on Native American adolescent growth and development. My research interests include relationships between toxicants such as PCBs, DDT (DDE) and other toxicants and growth parameters including physical growth and sexual maturation. I have worked with Professor Schell on the Children's Environmental Health Studies grants. I have co-written papers on the effects of toxicants on thyroid hormones and growth and we have presented our results at many of the physical anthropology meetings.

Publications

In Press:
Physical growth and development of Native American and Inuit children and youth. L. M. Schell, M. V. Gallo, F. E. Johnston. In, Environment, Origins, and Population, vol. 3 of The Handbook of North American Indians. Douglas Ubelaker, vol. ed.  William C. Sturtevant, gen. ed. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

PCBs and cognitive functioning of Mohawk adolescents. J. Newman, A. Aucompaugh, L. M. Schell, M. Denham, A. P. DeCaprio, M. Gallo, J. Ravenscroft, C.-C. Kao, M. Rougas Hanover, D. David, A. M. Jacobs, A. M. Tarbell, P. Worswick, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. Neurotoxicology and Teratology.

2006:
Effects of pollution on human growth and development: an introduction. L. M. Schell, M. V. Gallo, M. Denham, J. Ravenscroft. Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 25(1):103-112.

2005:
Height, weight and body mass index among Akwesasne Mohawk youth. M.V. Gallo, L.M. Schell and Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. American Journal of Human Biology, 2005, 17(3):269-279.

Relationship of lead, mercury, mirex, DDE, HCB, and PCBs to age at menarche among Akwesasne Mohawk girls. M. Denham, L. M. Schell, Glenn Deane, M. V. Gallo, J. Ravenscroft, A. P. Decaprio, and Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. Pediatrics 115(2): e125-e134.

2004:
Thyroid function in relation to burden of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s), p,p’-DDE, HCB, Mirex, and Lead among Akwesasne Mohawk youth: A preliminary study. L.M. Schell, M.V. Gallo, A. DeCaprio, L. Hubicki, M. Denham, J. Ravenscroft and Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 18: 91-99.