COVID-19 pharmacotherapy utilization patterns during pregnancy: International Registry of Coronavirus Exposure in Pregnancy.
Westhoff WJ, Smith LH, Wyszynski DF, Hernandez-Diaz S.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2022 Apr 14. PMID: 35426202
Other Positions
Director, Pharmacoepidemiology Program
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Overview
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.
Bibliography
Ischemic Placental Disease, Preterm Delivery, and Their Association With Opioid Use During Pregnancy.
Esposito DB, Bateman B, Werler M, Straub L, Mogun H, Hernandez-Diaz S, Huybrechts K.
Am J Epidemiol. 2022 Mar 24. 191(5):759-768. PMID: 34165143
Esposito et al. Respond to "Opioid Use and Ischemic Placental Disease".
Esposito DB, Bateman B, Werler M, Straub L, Mogun H, Hernandez-Diaz S, Huybrechts K.
Am J Epidemiol. 2022 Mar 24. 191(5):773-774. PMID: 34528055
International Registry of Coronavirus Exposure in Pregnancy (IRCEP) - Cohort Description and Methodological Considerations.
Hernandez-Diaz S, Smith LH, Dollinger C, Rasmussen SA, Schisterman EF, Bellocco R, Wyszynski DF.
Am J Epidemiol. 2022 Mar 08. PMID: 35259213
Neurodevelopmental Disorders Among Publicly or Privately Insured Children in the United States.
Straub L, Bateman BT, Hernandez-Diaz S, York C, Lester B, Wisner KL, McDougle CJ, Pennell PB, Gray KJ, Zhu Y, Suarez EA, Mogun H, Huybrechts KF.
JAMA Psychiatry. 2022 Mar 01. 79(3):232-242. PMID: 34985527
Trajectories of Prescription Opioid Utilization During Pregnancy Among Prepregnancy Chronic Users and Risk of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome.
Straub L, Huybrechts KF, Hernández-Díaz S, Zhu Y, Vine S, Desai RJ, Gray KJ, Bateman BT.
Am J Epidemiol. 2022 01 01. 191(1):208-219. PMID: 34643225
Effectiveness of 17-OHP for Prevention of Recurrent Preterm Birth: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
Hakim JB, Zhou A, Hernandez-Diaz S, Hart JM, Wylie BJ, Beam AL.
Am J Perinatol. 2021 Dec 31. PMID: 34972229
COVID-19 perceived impacts on sleep, fitness, and diet and associations with mental health during pregnancy: A cross-national study.
Choi KW, Kim HH, Basu A, Kwong ASF, Hernandez-Diaz S, Wyszynski DF, Koenen KC.
J Affect Disord Rep. 2022 Jan. 7:100288. PMID: 34927121
Frequency and source of worries in an International sample of pregnant and postpartum women during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wyszynski DF, Hernandez-Diaz S, Gordon-Dseagu V, Ramiro N, Basu A, Kim HH, Koenen KC.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2021 Nov 12. 21(1):768. PMID: 34772345
Safety of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate for Pregnant Women Facing the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.
Hernández-Díaz S, Bateman BT, Straub L, Zhu Y, Mogun H, Fischer M, Huybrechts KF.
Am J Epidemiol. 2021 11 02. 190(11):2339-2349. PMID: 33847737
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