Director, Pharmacoepidemiology Program
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, MD, DrPH is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her area of interest is drug safety evaluation from non-randomized data, with a special emphasis on the design, conduct, and analysis of studies in pregnant women and their infants. Examples of her work include inquiries of the comparative safety of psychotropics for pregnant women and their offspring using real world evidence from both pregnancy registries and large healthcare databases. She is Past-President of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and the Society for Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research; and serves as a Special Government Employee for the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee (current Chair), as a member of the NICHD Pregnancy & Neonatology (PN) Study Section, and as member of the Teratogenic Information Services (TERIS) Advisory Board. Through her service to public health institutions she has contributed to the translation of research into policy and actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
Straub L, Bateman BT, Hernandez-Diaz S, York C, Zhu Y, Suarez EA, Lester B, Gonzalez L, Hanson R, Hildebrandt C, Homsi J, Kang D, Lee KWK, Lee Z, Li L, Longacre M, Shah N, Tukan N, Wallace F, Williams C, Zerriny S, Mogun H, Huybrechts KF.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2021 Oct 08. PMID: 34623720
Esposito DB, Bateman B, Werler M, Straub L, Mogun H, Hernandez-Diaz S, Huybrechts K.
Am J Epidemiol. 2021 Sep 15. PMID: 34528055
Dagan N, Barda N, Biron-Shental T, Makov-Assif M, Key C, Kohane IS, Hernán MA, Lipsitch M, Hernandez-Diaz S, Reis BY, Balicer RD.
Nat Med. 2021 Oct. 27(10):1693-1695. PMID: 34493859
Bröms G, Friedman S, Kim SC, Wood ME, Hernandez-Diaz S, Brill G, Bateman BT, Huybrechts KF, Desai RJ.
Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2021 Aug 19. 27(9):1427-1434. PMID: 33751058
Esposito DB, Bateman B, Werler M, Straub L, Mogun H, Hernandez-Diaz S, Huybrechts K.
Am J Epidemiol. 2021 Jun 24. PMID: 34165143
Wyszynski DF, Hernandez-Diaz S, Gordon-Dseagu V, Ramiro N, Koenen KC.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2021 Jun 22. 1-9. PMID: 34157929
Jones FJS, Sanches PR, Smith JR, Zafar SF, Hernandez-Diaz S, Blacker D, Hsu J, Schwamm LH, Westover MB, Moura LMVR.
Stroke. 2021 Aug. 52(9):2782-2791. PMID: 34126758
Basu A, Kim HH, Basaldua R, Choi KW, Charron L, Kelsall N, Hernandez-Diaz S, Wyszynski DF, Koenen KC.
PLoS One. 2021. 16(4):e0249780. PMID: 33882096
Hernandez-Diaz S, Bateman BT, Straub L, Zhu Y, Mogun H, Fischer M, Huybrechts KF.
Am J Epidemiol. 2021 Apr 13. PMID: 33847737
Chambers CD, Krishnan JA, Alba L, Albano JD, Bryant AS, Carver M, Cohen LS, Gorodetsky E, Hernandez-Diaz S, Honein MA, Jones BL, Murray RK, Namazy JA, Sahin L, Spong CY, Vasisht KP, Watt K, Wurst KE, Yao L, Schatz M.
J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021 06. 147(6):2009-2020. PMID: 33713765
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