Research Areas

• Reproductive Epidemiology
• Occupational and Environmental Health
• Male Reproductive Health

Dr. Wendie Robbins has been a faculty member at UCLA since 1997. She shares an appointment between the School of Nursing and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Department. She has focused her research, teaching and service in the areas of epidemiology, male reproductive health, and occupational/environmental health nursing. Her research couples epidemiologic methods with laboratory-based science, for example, sperm DNA integrity measures related to male reproductive function.

Research Publications

Young adult cancer survivors and work: a systematic review.

Reintegrating Veterans with Polytrauma into the Community and Workplace.

Association of Spontaneous Preterm Delivery and Future Maternal Cardiovascular Disease.

Effect of lifestyle exposures on sperm aneuploidy.

Off to a good start: the influence of pre- and periconceptional exposures, parental fertility, and nutrition on children’s health.

Integrating new tests of sperm genetic integrity into semen analysis: breakout group discussion.

FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) to detect effects of smoking, caffeine, and alcohol on human sperm chromosome

Cytogenetic damage measured in human sperm following cancer chemotherapy.

Understanding the Workplace Interactions of Young Adult Cancer Survivors With Occupational and Environmental Health Professionals.

Metal(loid)s in Cucurbita pepo in a Uranium Mining Impacted Area in Northwestern New Mexico, USA.

Environmental hexachlorobenzene exposure and human male reproductive function.

Health Effects of Vanpooling to Work.

Harnessing genomics to identify environmental determinants of heritable disease

Y:X sperm ratio in boron-exposed men.

Chronic boron exposure and human semen parameters.

A hierarchical zero-inflated log-normal model for skewed responses

Reproductive hormones and interleukin-6 in serious leisure male athletes.

FK506, a calcineurin inhibitor, prevents cadmium-induced testicular toxicity in mice.

Walnuts improve semen quality in men consuming a Western-style diet: randomized control dietary intervention trial

Cost variances in health care: when should managers investigate?

Boron workers in China: exploring work and lifestyle factors related to boron exposure

Workgroup report: Implementing a national occupational reproductive research agenda–decade one and beyond.

Episodic air pollution is associated with increased DNA fragmentation in human sperm without other changes in semen quality

Use of versant TMA and bDNA 3.0 assays to detect and quantify hepatitis C virus in semen.

Evaluation of chromosome breakage and DNA integrity in sperm: an investigation of remote semen collection conditions.

Presence and predictors of hepatitis C virus RNA in the semen of homeless men.

Aneuploidy and chromosome breakage in swim-up versus unprocessed semen from twenty healthy men

Stable variants of sperm aneuploidy among healthy men show associations between germinal and somatic aneuploidy

Organophosphorous pesticide exposure increases the frequency of sperm sex null aneuploidy.

Chemotherapy induces transient sex chromosomal and autosomal aneuploidy in human sperm.

Evaluation of aneuploidy and DNA damage in human spermatozoa: applications in field studies

Evaluation of a container for collection and shipment of semen with potential uses in population-based, clinical, and occupational settings

Detection of sex chromosomal aneuploidies X-X, Y-Y, and X-Y in human sperm using two-chromosome fluorescence in situ hybridization.

Detection of aneuploid human sperm by fluorescence in situ hybridization: evidence for a donor difference in frequency of sperm disomic for chromosomes 1 and Y

Use of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to assess effects of smoking, caffeine, and alcohol on aneuploidy load in sperm of healthy men

Three-probe fluorescence in situ hybridization to assess chromosome X, Y, and 8 aneuploidy in sperm of 14 men from two healthy groups: evidence for a paternal age effect on sperm aneuploidy.

Accounting practice diversity in the healthcare industry.

The role of cochlear implants in deaf children

Profit-sharing plans in nonprofit hospitals.

Accounting guidelines for HMOs: issues and practices.

What nurse managers should know about sampling techniques.

Postexposure prophylaxis for HIV exposed health care workers.

Linear programming a useful tool in case-mix management