Dr. Carmen Messerlian

Carmen Messerlian, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of environmental reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology at Harvard University, where she examines the extent to which environmental exposures affect a couple’s ability to achieve conception, maintain pregnancy and deliver healthy offspring. She is a passionate and curious scientist committed to understanding how the world around us impacts human reproduction across the lifecourse. Dr. Messerlian is also the Director of the Scientific Early Life Environmental Health & Development (SEED) Program, where her team works to understand how the environment impacts reproductive health from the very earliest stages of life – starting from the formation of gametes and embryos – to the birth of infants and throughout childhood. Dr. Messerlian has written over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals and was previously a pediatric nurse at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and a maternal-child public health consultant for local, state, and national governments. She is a Scientific Committee Member for the EPA's Toxic Substance Control Act and serves on numerous committees working to improve the health and wellbeing of women and children. Outside of her work as a fertility scientist, Dr. Messerlian is an enthusiastic teacher, mentor, and lifelong learner. She is also innovating in the Femtech entrepreneur space. Follow her @drmesserlian or find more information about her work at harvard @ seed-program.org.