Co-Director, Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU); Co-Director, Pediatric Environmental Health Center; Pediatrician, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU); Co-Director, Pediatric Environmental Health Center; Pediatrician, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
Boston Children's Hospital
2015
Boston
MA
Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics (General)
Professional History
Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH, FAAP is a mother, practicing board-certified general pediatrician, environmental medicine physician-scientist, and co-director for the Boston Children’s Pediatric Environmental Health Center and the Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. Each week, in addition to her general pediatrics practice, she provides multidisciplinary clinical care for children with lead poisoning, mold exposure, asthma and other environmentally-mediated disease processes. Her career is dedicated to mitigating environmental and climate injustices for pediatric and reproductive-aged populations through the intersection of public health and medicine. Her work particularly focuses on the importance of systematically integrating and leveraging geospatial and biological markers of environmental exposures and screening tools into pediatric medicine. She has an NIH/NIEHS K23 Career Development Award and recently became an inaugural Chief Medical Advisor to the Bureau of Climate and Environmental Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Dr. Hauptman has leveraged her expertise as a physician-scientist in pediatric environmental medicine to make important clinical advances and innovations in the field of childhood lead poisoning, extreme heat, and other environmental and climate justice issues. She has received numerous local, regional and national awards for her research and dedication to addressing environmental and climate injustices for pediatric populations. These accolades include the 2025 Academic Pediatric Association Research Award - Early Career, the 2024 Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) Academic Development Mentor Award, one of six honored at the inaugural Boston Chldren's Hospital HERStory Award Ceremony for being a Trailblazer in Research and Innovation, honored at the 2025 City of Boston Climate Leadership Awards, the BCRP Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Honor Roll (2022-23), the Rhode Island Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program Healthy Housing Award (2007), and others from the AAP Section on Allergy and Immunology (2016), the Academic Pediatric Association Fellow Research Award (2015) and the Academic Pediatric Association Michael Shannon Research Award (2017).
Publications
Cost-effectiveness of school integrated pest management and air filtration in students with asthma. View Abstract
Take the Lead on Lead: Feasibility of a Telemedicine-Based Clinic for Lead Poisoning Prevention and Management. View Abstract
Universal Lead Testing in Pregnancy: A Call to Action. View Abstract
Urinary biomarkers of environmental exposures and asthma morbidity in a school inner city asthma study. View Abstract
Breathing unequal: Unmasking the link between environmental justice, air pollution, and asthma severity. View Abstract
The effects of urban green space and road proximity to indoor traffic-related PM2.5, NO2, and BC exposure in inner-city schools. View Abstract
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Blood Lead Testing in Children in the United States. View Abstract
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Lead Testing and Blood Lead Levels. View Abstract
Asthma and Environmental Exposures to Phenols, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, and Phthalates in Children. View Abstract
Multilevel Risk Factors for Sleep-Disordered Breathing-Related Symptom Burden in an Urban Pediatric Community-Based Sample. View Abstract
Environmental Impact of a Pediatric and Young Adult Virtual Medicine Program: A Lesson from the COVID-19 Pandemic. View Abstract
Preferred Language Mediates Association Between Race, Ethnicity, and Delayed Presentation in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. View Abstract
Predictors of Subspecialty Appointment Scheduling and Completion for Patients Referred From a Pediatric Primary Care Clinic. View Abstract
Effect of radon exposure on asthma morbidity in the School Inner-City Asthma study. View Abstract
Neighborhood disparities and the burden of lead poisoning. View Abstract
The more you know: Insights from integrated pre-visit surveys in a pediatric environmental health center. View Abstract
A cross-validation based approach for estimating specific gravity in elementary-school aged children using a nonlinear model. View Abstract
Environmental radon and childhood asthma. View Abstract
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Mental Health-Related School-Nurse Visits in United States Schools. View Abstract
Invited Commentary: There's No Place Like Home-Integrating a Place-Based Approach to Understanding Sleep. View Abstract
Cross-sectional study of urinary biomarkers of environmental tobacco and e-cigarette exposure and asthma morbidity. View Abstract
Factors Influencing Classroom Exposures to Fine Particles, Black Carbon, and Nitrogen Dioxide in Inner-City Schools and Their Implications for Indoor Air Quality. View Abstract
Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Smoking on Child Health. View Abstract
HEPA filtration intervention in classrooms may improve some students' asthma. View Abstract
Early Detection in Childhood Lead Exposure Relies on Timely Testing-Reply. View Abstract
Risk-Factor Based Lead Screening and Correlation with Blood Lead Levels in Pregnancy. View Abstract
Individual- and Community-Level Factors Associated With Detectable and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in US Children: Results From a National Clinical Laboratory. View Abstract
Effect of School Integrated Pest Management or Classroom Air Filter Purifiers on Asthma Symptoms in Students With Active Asthma: A Randomized Clinical Trial. View Abstract
Isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles in saliva of children with asthma. View Abstract
