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. 2021 Jun 24. PMID: 34165143
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.
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Stress levels among an international sample of pregnant and postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wyszynski DF, Hernandez-Diaz S, Gordon-Dseagu V, Ramiro N, Koenen KC.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2021 Jun 22. 1-9. PMID: 34157929
Anticonvulsant Primary and Secondary Prophylaxis for Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients: A Decision Analysis.
Jones FJS, Sanches PR, Smith JR, Zafar SF, Hernandez-Diaz S, Blacker D, Hsu J, Schwamm LH, Westover MB, Moura LMVR.
Stroke. 2021 Jun 15. STROKEAHA120033299. PMID: 34126758
A cross-national study of factors associated with women's perinatal mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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
Safety of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (TDF) for Pregnant Women facing the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Hernandez-Diaz S, Bateman BT, Straub L, Zhu Y, Mogun H, Fischer M, Huybrechts KF.
Am J Epidemiol. 2021 Apr 13. PMID: 33847737
The safety of asthma medications during pregnancy and lactation: Clinical management and research priorities.
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 Jun. 147(6):2009-2020. PMID: 33713765
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pregnant women and mothers of young children: results of a survey in 16 countries.
Skjefte M, Ngirbabul M, Akeju O, Escudero D, Hernandez-Diaz S, Wyszynski DF, Wu JW.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2021 Feb. 36(2):197-211. PMID: 33649879
Association of first trimester prescription opioid use with congenital malformations in the offspring: population based cohort study.
Bateman BT, Hernandez-Diaz S, Straub L, Zhu Y, Gray KJ, Desai RJ, Mogun H, Gautam N, Huybrechts KF.
BMJ. 2021 02 10. 372:n102. PMID: 33568363
Chronic prescription opioid use in pregnancy in the United States.
Straub L, Huybrechts KF, Hernandez-Diaz S, Zhu Y, Vine S, Desai RJ, Gray KJ, Bateman BT.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2021 04. 30(4):504-513. PMID: 33428239
Hydroxychloroquine early in pregnancy and risk of birth defects: absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.
Huybrechts KF, Bateman BT, Hernandez-Diaz S.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021 05. 224(5):549-550. PMID: 33434554
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