Rate My Professor Tania Desrosiers

Dr. Desrosiers specializes in perinatal and pediatric epidemiology, focusing on the etiology of major structural birth defects to support prevention through clinical and public health translation. Her research interests encompass birth defects surveillance, periconceptional exposure assessment, employment and occupational exposures during pregnancy, male-mediated mechanisms of teratogenesis, epidemiologic methods, interdisciplinary collaboration, and research dissemination. As co-principal investigator of the CDC-funded North Carolina Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention, she contributes to improving birth defects understanding. She participated in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, the largest U.S. population-based epidemiologic study of more than 30 birth defect types. Key publications include 'Low carbohydrate diets may increase risk of neural tube defects' (Birth Defects Research, 2018), a top cited article; 'Exome sequencing identifies novel genes underlying primary congenital glaucoma' (Birth Defects Research, 2024); 'Maternal physical activity, sitting time, and risk of non-cardiac birth defects' (Pediatric Research, 2024); 'Associations between birth defects with neural crest cell developmental origins and pediatric embryonal tumors' (Cancer, 2023); and 'Maternal occupational exposure to selected organic and chlorinated solvents and delivery of small-for-gestational age or preterm infants' (American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2023). She is a core faculty member of the Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology program and teaches courses such as EPID 851/MCH 851: Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology.