Wendie Robbins PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAOHN

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.

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

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

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

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.

Research Publications

University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health

University of California, Los Angeles
School of Public Health