Francheska M. Merced-Nieves

Francheska M. Merced-Nieves is an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with joint appointments in the Departments of Public Health and Environmental Medicine. Her research focuses on environmental health and children’s neurodevelopment. Specifically, she has focused on studying the individual and joint associations between prenatal exposure to multiple environmental factors, non-chemical (e.g., maternal stress) and chemical (e.g., phthalates and metals), on neurodevelopment and behavior.