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.
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 Mar 10. PMID: 33713765
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
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
Straub L, Huybrechts KF, Hernandez-Diaz S, Zhu Y, Vine S, Desai RJ, Gray KJ, Bateman BT.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2021 Apr. 30(4):504-513. PMID: 33428239
Huybrechts KF, Bateman BT, Hernandez-Diaz S.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021 May. 224(5):549-550. PMID: 33434554
Zhu Y, Huybrechts KF, Desai RJ, Franklin JM, Hernandez-Diaz S, Krumme A, Straub L, Neuman M, Wunsch H, Levin R, Mogun H, Bateman BT.
Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2021 03. 3(2):100304. PMID: 33383232
Wood ME, Burch RC, Hernandez-Diaz S.
Cephalalgia. 2021 Mar. 41(3):392-403. PMID: 33269942
Bröms G, Friedman S, Kim SC, Wood ME, Hernandez-Diaz S, Brill G, Bateman BT, Huybrechts KF, Desai RJ.
Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2020 Nov 18. PMID: 33751058
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