RSPH Faculty

Jules and Deen Terry Professor of Maternal and Child Health

Professor of Epidemiology

Director, Women's and Children's Center

Dr. Hogue was appointed Professor of Epidemiology and Jules & Uldeen Terry Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University in 1992. For a decade before that, she was at the federal Centers for Disease Control, Division of Reproductive Health, where she was chief of the Pregnancy Epidemiology Branch (1982-88) and then Director of the Division (1988-1992). Prior to her government service, she was on the Biometry faculty of Arkansas medical school (1977-82) and the Biostatistics faculty of UNC-CH School of Public Health (1974-77). While at CDC, Dr. Hogue initiated many of the current CDC reproductive health programs, including the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), the National Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System, and the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project that initiated the national and state-level development and use of linked birth and death records. In addition, Dr. Hogue led the first research on maternal morbidities that was the precursor to the current safe motherhood initiative, and the initial innovative research on racial disparities in preterm delivery that found that college-educated African American women have a three-fold risk of very preterm delivery, when compared to college-educated White women. This discovery has triggered further research into biological, biosocial, and environmental causes of this as-yet unexplained excess risk. Her ongoing research interests include the long-term effects of induced abortion, epidemiology of preterm delivery, and the impact of pregnancy complications on minority health. She has published broadly in maternal health, including studies of ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, unintended pregnancy, contraceptive failure, and reproductive cancers. She has a long-standing interest in environmental impacts on reproductive health. With Carole Kimmel and others, she published a study in 1984 on the reliability of experimental studies for predicting hazards to human development.  Her subsequent research has focused on the effects of risk factors such as smoking, obesity and environmental stress on reproductive health. She is lead editor of the book, Minority Health in America (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2000) and of a 2001 supplement to the journal Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, entitled "New Perspectives on the Stubborn Challenge of Preterm Birth.” Currently she is PI of the Emory Center in the NICHD-funded Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network as well as PI of the Emory National Children’s Study Center for Wave 2.  She is also leading intervention research into reducing obesity among African American women healthcare workers, funded by an RO1 grant from CDC and a CSREES grant from USDA. Among her many honors, Dr. Hogue served as President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (1988-89), served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Unintended Pregnancy (1993-1995), was Chair of the Regional Advisory Panel for the Americas of the World Health Organization Human Reproduction Programme (1997-99), President of the American College of Epidemiology (2002-4), Senior Fellow of the Emory Center for the Study of Law and Religion (2001-6), and received the MCH Coalition’s National Effective Practice Award in 2002. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hogue, co-chair                                                               9/1/06-8/31/11                                25%

Emory University                                                             $555,344)

Religion and Health Collaborative

 

As part of Emory University’s strategic theme “Confronting the Human Experience and the Human Condition,” the Religion and Health collaborative will explore the intersection of religion and public health through research, academic programs, and community involvement.

 

 

Promoting Women’s Health Grant (Gaydos)               1/01/07 – 12/31/07                        1% in-kind

Atlanta Women’s Foundation                                        $21,000

The Preserving Women’s Well-Being Advocacy Coalition

The major goal of this study is to generate information sharing partnerships between Public Health researchers and Georgia state legislators in order to better inform reproductive health debates.

 

6 D09HP02991-01-02 (Strickland, PI)                         7/1/99-6/30/07                                5%

HRSA                                                                               $97,243

PhD In Nursing Program: Enhanced Doctoral Education

Role: Mentor

 

 

 

 

Oxford Press

Seminars in Perinatology.

Acta Obstet Gynecol Scandinavica

Social Science & Medicine.

International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health.

·        Steering Committee, WHO Multicountry Study on Maternal and Perinatal Health, 2008-2010

·        March of Dimes National Organization, Perinatal Advisory Committee, 2002 - present

·        World Health Organization, Human Reproduction Programme, Subcommittee for the Americas, Resources for Research, 1991-1996; Chair, Regional Advisory Panel (Americas Region), 1997-1999; Ad Hoc Member, Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, 1998-2000.    

·        Latin American Perinatal Center, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1997-present

·        Junior League of Atlanta, Community Advisory Board, 1998-present

·        UNICEF Child Survival Awards Committee, 1994-present

·        Institute of Medicine Committee on Unintended Pregnancy, 1993-1996

·        Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of South Florida, 1993-2005

·        Department of Maternal and Child Health University, of Alabama at Birmingham, 1993-1999

·        Low Birthweight PORT, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1993-1998

·        MedTech Program, Morehouse School of Medicine, 1991 - 1997

·        Toward Improved Outcome of Pregnancy, 1989-1992

·        Expert Panel on Content of Prenatal Care, 1985-1990