Factors associated with small-for-gestational-age births among preterm babies born <2000 g: a multifacility cross-sectional study in Ethiopia.
Debere MK, Haile Mariam D, Ali A, Mekasha A, Chan GJ.
BMJ Open. 2022 11 22. 12(11):e064936. PMID: 36414292
Secondary Faculty
Grace Chan
Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population
Epidemiology
Other Positions
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics-Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Overview
Dr. Chan’s work focuses on global perinatal and pediatric epidemiology. She leads the HaSET research program for maternal and child health. Together with colleagues, she has established a field site in rural Ethiopia with a cohort of women and their children.
Ongoing research projects and interests focus on:
- Surveillance of maternal and child morbidity and mortality to improve disease estimates
- Risk prediction and causal modeling for pregnancy complications and adverse birth outcomes
- Development and testing of newborn care packages to improve survival of preterm and low-birth weight babies
- Etiologies of neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance
Dr. Chan also serves as an attending physician in the Division of Medical Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also an honorary faculty member at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She has mentored students and fellows as an academic advisor and dissertation committee member.
BA
Harvard College
MPH
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
MD
Harvard Medical School
PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Residency
Boston Children's Hospital
Post-doc
International Centre of Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Bibliography
Survival status and predictors of mortality among low-birthweight neonates admitted to KMC units of five public hospitals in Ethiopia: Frailty survival regression model.
Debere MK, Haile Mariam D, Ali A, Mekasha A, Chan GJ.
PLoS One. 2022. 17(11):e0276291. PMID: 36355701
Incremental costs of scaling up kangaroo mother care: Results from implementation research in Ethiopia and India.
Acta Paediatr. 2022 Aug 19. PMID: 35983749
Antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiota of mothers and linked neonates with or without sepsis from low- and middle-income countries.
Carvalho MJ, Sands K, Thomson K, Portal E, Mathias J, Milton R, Gillespie D, Dyer C, Akpulu C, Boostrom I, Hogan P, Saif H, Ferreira A, Nieto M, Hender T, Hood K, Andrews R, Watkins WJ, Hassan B, Chan G, Bekele D, Solomon S, Metaferia G, Basu S, Naha S, Sinha A, Chakravorty P, Mukherjee S, Iregbu K, Modibbo F, Uwaezuoke S, Audu L, Edwin CP, Yusuf AH, Adeleye A, Mukkadas AS, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Muhammad A, Ullah SN, Jan MH, Akif S, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw A, Roberts L, Walsh TR.
Nat Microbiol. 2022 09. 7(9):1337-1347. PMID: 35927336
Characterisation of Staphylococci species from neonatal blood cultures in low- and middle-income countries.
Sands K, Carvalho MJ, Spiller OB, Portal EAR, Thomson K, Watkins WJ, Mathias J, Dyer C, Akpulu C, Andrews R, Ferreira A, Hender T, Milton R, Nieto M, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Muhammad A, Akif S, Jan MH, Iregbu K, Modibbo F, Uwaezuoke S, Chan GJ, Bekele D, Solomon S, Basu S, Nandy RK, Naha S, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw A, Walsh TR.
BMC Infect Dis. 2022 Jul 01. 22(1):593. PMID: 35790903
Implementation science to design, test and scale up effective Kangaroo Mother Care in Oromia region, Ethiopia.
Estifanos AS, Haile Mariam D, Fikre A, Kote M, Tariku A, Chan GJ.
Acta Paediatr. 2022 Jun 12. PMID: 35691617
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on utilisation of facility-based essential maternal and child health services from March to August 2020 compared with pre-pandemic March-August 2019: a mixed-methods study in North Shewa Zone, Ethiopia.
Bekele C, Bekele D, Hunegnaw BM, Van Wickle K, Gebremeskel FA, Korte M, Tedijanto C, Taddesse L, Chan GJ.
BMJ Open. 2022 06 03. 12(6):e059408. PMID: 36437538
Estimates of Stillbirths, Neonatal Mortality, and Medically Vulnerable Live Births in Amhara, Ethiopia.
Chan GJ, Goddard FGB, Hunegnaw BM, Mohammed Y, Hunegnaw M, Haneuse S, Bekele C, Bekele D.
JAMA Netw Open. 2022 06 01. 5(6):e2218534. PMID: 35749113
Cohort Profile: The Birhan Health and Demographic Surveillance System.
Bekele D, Hunegnaw BM, Bekele C, Van Wickle K, Tadesse F, Goddard FGB, Mohammed Y, Unninayar S, Chan GJ.
Int J Epidemiol. 2022 05 09. 51(2):e39-e45. PMID: 34751768
Neonatal sepsis and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries from a facility-based birth cohort: an international multisite prospective observational study.
Milton R, Gillespie D, Dyer C, Taiyari K, Carvalho MJ, Thomson K, Sands K, Portal EAR, Hood K, Ferreira A, Hender T, Kirby N, Mathias J, Nieto M, Watkins WJ, Bekele D, Abayneh M, Solomon S, Basu S, Nandy RK, Saha B, Iregbu K, Modibbo FZ, Uwaezuoke S, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Najeeb SU, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw AC, Walsh TR, Chan GJ.
Lancet Glob Health. 2022 05. 10(5):e661-e672. PMID: 35427523
News
Study fills in data gaps for vulnerable births in Ethiopia
Harvard Chan School researchers estimated the number and prevalence of stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and medically vulnerable newborns in Ethiopia.
Examining causes of newborn sepsis in low- and middle-income countries
In a new study, Harvard Chan School's Grace Chan and colleagues identified risk factors for sepsis in newborns in low- and middle-income countries.
Addressing maternal and child health in Ethiopia
A collaboration called HaSET is working to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality in Ethiopia.
Finding peace and purpose during a pandemic
Global health student Michelle Korte, MPH ’21, is using her time in isolation to focus on what matters most.
