Pregnancy is a dynamic life phase when everything changes, including your body. Dr. Rodriguez talked with SELF Magazine about how to manage these changes – read it here.
Given the ongoing opioid crisis, Dr. Rodriguez teamed up with a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary team to investigate mindfulness-based stress reduction for treating chronic pain. Watch here as WPI’s Dean Jean King discusses the project and its implications with Spectrum News.
Dr. Rodriguez participated in two stories Dec 2022 by KPCC (Southern California’s NPR) to talk about the dangers of #snapback culture for maternal health: a piece published in LAist and a live radio segment on AirTalk with Larry Mantle.
Over the past several years, Dr. Rodriguez has partnered with the amazing Jen McLellan, founder of Plus Size Birth and Plus Mommy Podcast, to advance outreach and advocacy to reduce pregnancy-related weight stigma and promote maternal health for all. Read Dr. Rodriguez’s and Jen’s blog post and their related podcast episode about weight stigma in pregnancy and what we can do about it!
Dr. Rodriguez quoted in an article from Healthing focused on weight gain and stigma in pregnancy.
Student mental health is a growing concern. Dr. Rodriguez joined a panel of researchers, faculty, and students to discuss mental health on college campuses and what we all can do about it it as a community.
Dr. Rodriguez and a group of colleagues were awarded the NSF RAPID grant to study how this novel coronavirus pandemic is affecting college students’ stress and learning in an online setting.
In her article published in The Conversation, Dr. Rodriguez discusses her research on weight stigma during and after pregnancy and what this might mean for maternal health – published just in time for December 11, the most fertile day of the year!
The Bump, Medical Xpress, and Red Tricycle cover new papers from the SEED Lab on pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences of weight stigma and some associated consequences.
WPI Journal‘s Summer 2019 issue highlights the SEED Lab’s research and recent findings.
Dr. Rodriguez on Boston 25 News! (Fun fact: Dr. Rodriguez taped this interview on her due date, and the news story ran while she was in the hospital delivering her son.)
Dr. Rodriguez on WBUR (Boston’s NPR news station) discussing potential consequences of experiencing weight stigma during pregnancy/postpartum.
This New York Times article discusses a study that Dr. Rodriguez conducted with Mary Himmelstein and Janet Tomiyama where they found that weight stigma increases cortisol.
