Dr. Fiona C. Baker | Source | Director, Center for Health Sciences at SRI International

Fiona Baker, Ph.D. is the Director of Center for Health Sciences at SRI International, which she joined in 2005. She focuses on understanding the interplay between sleep physiology and human health across the lifespan. Baker is a world expert on issues of sleep in women. Her areas of research include sleep EEG, sex differences in sleep, sleep in menopause, relationships between sleep and cardiovascular functioning, and interactions between brain development, sleep, and behaviors such as alcohol use, across adolescence.

Baker has published more than 80 scientific papers extensively on issues of sleep in women in the context of reproductive stages; her research has advanced understanding of insomnia that develops during the menopausal transition and revealed interactions between the female reproductive system and sleep and circadian regulatory systems.