Vijaya Kancherla
Associate Research Professor
Associate Professor
Faculty, Epidemiology
Faculty, Executive MPH
Vijaya Kancherla is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Kancherla also serves as the Associate Director for the Applied Epidemiology Track for the Executive Master of Public Health (EMPH) Program at Emory University. She instructs graduate courses in the Department of Epidemiology and the EMPH program at Rollins. She also serves as Deputy Director at the Center for Spina Bifida Prevention at Emory University. Her research interests are broadly focused on maternal and child health, with an emphasis on birth defects surveillance, research, prevention, healthcare utilization, and policy. She serves on various research and service committees, both national and international, in the field of birth defects. Dr. Kancherla is an affiliate member of the International Clearinghouse on Birth Defects Surveillance and Research, Chair of the Public Affairs Committee of the Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention, and engaged as a Consultant & Technical Expert in the Global WHO Birth Defects Technical Working Group at the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization.
Bibliography of publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/10ao-yDSjufAi/bibliography/public/
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta , GA 30322
Phone: 404-727-8884
Fax: 404-727-8737
Email: vijaya.kancherla@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Adolescent Health/Child Health
- Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Health Policy
- Maternal and Child Health
- Nutrition
Education
- Pierre Decoufle Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2012, NCBDDD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- PhD 2010, The University of Iowa
- MS 2004, Southern Illinois University
- BHMS 2000, NTR University of Health Sciences, India
Courses Taught
- EPI 565: Data Sources & Methods MCH EPI
- EPI 504: Fundamentals Of Epidemiology
Affiliations & Activities
Deputy Director, Center for Spina Bifida Prevention, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Associate Track Director, Applied Epidemiology, Executive MPH, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Committee Member, WHO Technical Working Group on Burden of Birth Defects (TWGBBD), World Health Organization
Guest Researcher, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Consultant, ReachAnother Foundation
Collaborator and Reviewer for Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention, Iowa Registry for Congenital and Inherited Disorders
Consultant, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization
Technical Expert, Global WHO Birth Defects Technical Working Group, World Health Organization
Chair, Public Affairs Committee, Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention (formerly Teratology Society)
Member, Global Research on Developmental Disabilities Collabortors, Global Burden of Disease Study, Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle
Affiliate Member, International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surviellance and Research
Member, Society for Epidemiological Research
Member, Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Publications
- Kancherla V, Tandaki L, Sundar M, Lux A, Bakker MK, Bergman JE, Bermejo-Sánchez E, Canfield MA, Feldkamp ML, Groisman B, Hurtado-Villa P, Källén K, Landau D, Lelong N, Lopez-Camelo J, Mastroiacovo P, Morgan M, Mutchinick OM, Nance AE, Nembhard WN, Pierini A, Šípek A, Stallings EB, Szabova E, Wertelecki W, Zarante I, Rissmann A. A, 2022, Multicountry Analysis of Prevalence and Mortality among Neonates and Children with Bladder Exstrophy., Am J Perinatol, ,
- Kancherla V, Botto LD, Rowe LA, Shlobin NA, Caceres A, Arynchyna-Smith A, Zimmerman K, Blount J, Kibruyisfaw Z, Ghotme KA, Karmarkar S, Fieggen G, Roozen S, Oakley GP Jr, Rosseau G, Berry RJ., 2022, Preventing birth defects, saving lives, and promoting health equity: an urgent call to action for universal mandatory food fortification with folic acid. , Lancet Glob Health, 10, e1053-e1057
- Kancherla V, Roos N, Walani SR. , 2022, Relationship between achieving Sustainable Development Goals and promoting optimal care and prevention of birth defects globally., Birth Defects Res, ,
- Kancherla V, Wagh K, Pachon H, Oakley GP Jr., 2021, A 2019 global update on folic acid-preventable spina bifida and anencephaly, Birth Defects Res, 113, 77-89
- Martinez H, Pachón H, Kancherla V, Oakley GP, 2021, Food Fortification with Folic Acid Prevents Spina Bifida and Anencephaly: A Need for Paradigm Shift in Evidence Evaluation for Policy-Making, Am J Epidemiol, ,
- Kancherla V, Koning J, Biluts H, Woldemariam M, Kibruyisfaw Z, Belete A, Koning M, 2021, Projected impact of mandatory food fortification with folic acid on neurosurgical capacity needed for treating spina bifida in Ethiopia, Birth Defects Res, 113, 393-98
- Kancherla V, Chadha M, Rowe L, Thompson A, Jain S, Walters D, Martinez H, 2021, Reducing the burden of anemia and neural tube defects in low- and middle-income countries: An analysis to identify countries with an immediate potential to benefit from large-scale mandatory fortification of wheat flour and rice, Nutrients, 13, 244
- Rasmussen SA, Kancherla V, Conover E, 2020, Joint position statement on vaccines from the Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention and the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists., Birth Defects Res, 112, 527-534
- Manandhar M, Beydoun H, Kancherla V, 2020, Association between body mass index and folate insufficiency indicative of neural tube defects risk among nonpregnant women of childbearing age in the United States, NHANES, 2007-2010, Birth Defects Res, 112, 490-502
- Adia R Louden, Jonathan Suhl, Vijaya Kancherla, Kristin M Caspers Conway, Jennifer Makelarski, Meredith M Howley, Adrienne T Hoyt, Richard S Olney, Andrew F Olshan, Paul A Romitti, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 2020, Association between maternal periconceptional alcohol consumption and neural tube defects: Findings from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2011., Birth Defects Res, 112, 427-439
- Mowla S, Gissler M, Räisänen S, Kancherla V., 2020, Association between maternal pregestational diabetes mellitus and spina bifida: A population-based case-control study, Finland, 2000-2014., Birth Defects Res, 112, 186-195
- Olusanya BO, Wright SM, Nair MKC, Boo NY, Halpern R, Kuper H, Abubakar AA, Almasri NA, Arabloo J, Arora NK, Backhaus S, Berman BD, Breinbauer C, Carr G, de Vries PJ, Del Castillo-Hegyi C, Eftekhari A, Gladstone MJ, Hoekstra RA, Kancherla V, Mulaudzi MC, Kakooza-Mwesige A, Ogbo FA, Olsen HE, Olusanya JO, Pandey A, Samms-Vaughan ME, Servili C, Shaheen A, Smythe T, Wertlieb D, Williams AN, Newton CRJ, Davis AC, Kassebaum NJ; Global Research on Developmental Disabilities Collaborators (GRDDC)., 2020, Global Burden of Childhood Epilepsy, Intellectual Disability, and Sensory Impairments. , Pediatrics, 146, e20192623
- Zarante I, Hurtado-Villa P, Walani SR, Kancherla V, López Camelo J, Giugliani R, Groisman B, Howson CP, Durán P., 2019, A consensus statement on birth defects surveillance, prevention, and care in Latin America and the Caribbean., Rev Panam Salud Publica., 43, e2
- Bakker MK, Kancherla V, Canfield MA, Bermejo-Sanchez E, Cragan JD, Dastgiri S, De Walle HEK, Feldkamp ML, Groisman B, Gatt M, Hurtado-Villa P, Kallen K, Landau D, Lelong N, Lopez Camelo JS, Martínez L, Morgan M, Mutchinick OM, Nembhard WN, Pierini A, Rissmann A, Sipek A, Szabova E, Tagliabue G, Wertelecki W, Zarante I, Mastroiacovo P., 2019, Analysis of Mortality among Neonates and Children with Spina Bifida: An International Registry-Based Study, 2001-2012, Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol, 179, 436-448
- Li C, Binongo JN, Kancherla V., 2019, Effect of Parity on Pregnancy-Associated Hypertension Among Asian American Women in the United States., Maternal Child Health J, 23, 1098-1107
- Kancherla V, Ma C, Grant G, Lee HC, Shaw GM, Hintz SR, Carmichael SL., 2019, Factors Associated with Timeliness of Surgical Repair among Infants with Myelomeningocele: California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, 2006 to 2011, Am J Perinatol, ,
- Kancherla V, Ma C, Grant G, Lee HC, Shaw GM, Hintz SR, Carmichael SL., 2019, Factors Associated with Timeliness of Surgical Repair among Infants with Myelomeningocele: California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, 2006 to 2011., Am J Perinatol, ,
- Dixon M, Kancherla V, Magana T, Mulugeta A, Oakley GP Jr. , 2019, High potential for reducing folic acid-preventable spina bifida and anencephaly, and related stillbirth and child mortality, in Ethiopia., Birth Defects Res, ,
- Kapoor R, De Carlo K, Raman L, Thibadeau J, Kancherla V., 2019, Needs assessment survey for children and adults with spina bifida in Georgia., J Pediatr Rehabil Med, ,
- Kapoor R, Kancherla V, Cao Y, Oleson J, Suhl J, Canfield MA, Druschel CM, Kirby RS, Meyer RE, Romitti PA., 2019, Prevalence and descriptive epidemiology of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in the United States: A multistate, population-based retrospective study, 1999-2010., Birth Defects Res, 111, 159-169
- Kancherla V, Weakland AP, Xu SY, Walani SR., 2019, Scorecard for spina bifida research, prevention, and policy: Score analysis by Human Development Index and WHO region., Prev Med, 123, 1-7
- Goel N, Morris JK, Tucker D, de Walle HEK, Bakker MK, Kancherla V, Marengo L, Canfield MA, Kallen K, Lelong N, Camelo JL, Stallings EB, Jones AM, Nance A, Huynh MP, Martínez-Fernández ML, Sipek A, Pierini A, Nembhard WN, Goetz D, Rissmann A, Groisman B, Luna-Muñoz L, Szabova E, Lapchenko S, Zarante I, Hurtado-Villa P, Martinez LE, Tagliabue G, Landau D, Gatt M, Dastgiri S, Morgan M., 2019, Trisomy 13 and 18-Prevalence and mortality-A multi-registry population based analysis., Am J Med Genet A, 179, 2382-2392
- Redpath B, Kancherla V, Oakley GP, 2018, Availability of Corn Masa Flour and Tortillas Fortified With Folic Acid in Atlanta After National Regulations Allowing Voluntary Fortification., JAMA, ,
- Kancherla V, 2018, Countries with an immediate potential for primary prevention of spina bifida and anencephaly: Mandatory fortification of wheat flour with folic acid., Birth Defects Res, ,
- Kancherla V & Black RE, 2018, Historical perspective on folic acid and challenges in estimating global prevalence of neural tube defects., Ann N Y Acad Sci, ,
- Echaiz J, Blas M, Kancherla V., 2018, Unintended pregnancy and its impact on childhood rotavirus immunization in Peru., Rev Panam Salud Publica., 42, e96
- Blencowe H, Kancherla V, Moorthie S, Darlison M, Gibbons S, Modell B. , 2017, Estimates of global and regional prevalence of neural tube defects for 2015: a systematic analysis. , Ann NY Acad Sci , ,
- Kancherla V, Hasan MOS, Hamid R, Oakley GP Jr., Rahman M, Quamruzzaman Q, Mazumdar M, 2017, Prenatal folic acid use associated with decreased risk of myelomeningocele: Further support for folic acid fortification in Bangladesh, PLOS One, ,
- Kancherla V, Weakland A, Walani S, Bauwens L, Warf B, Oakley GP Jr. , 2017, Scorecard for spina bifida research, prevention, and policy – A development process, Prev Med, 99, 13-20
- Kancherla V, Oakley GP Jr, 2017, Total prevention of folic acid-preventable spina bifida and anencephaly would reduce child mortality in India – Implications in achieving Target 3.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals, Birth Defects Res, ,
- Arth A, Kancherla V, Pachón H, Zimmerman S, Johnson Q, Oakley GP Jr., 2016, A 2015 global update on folic acid-preventable spina bifida and anencephaly., Birth Defects Research Part A Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 106, 520-9
- Kancherla V, Elliott JL Jr, Patel BB, Holland NW, Johnson TM 2nd, Khakharia A, Phillips LS, Oakley GP, Vaughan CP., 2016, Long-term metformin therapy and monitoring for vitamin B-12 deficiency among older Veterans, J Am Geriatric Soc, ,
- Dong DY, Binongo JN, Kancherla V, 2016, Maternal Chlamydia Infection During Pregnancy and Risk of Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects in the Offspring, Matern Child Health J, 20, 66-76
- Mukhtar A, Kramer MR, Oakley GP Jr., Kancherla V, 2016, Periconceptional folic acid intake among women of reproductive age in Georgia, Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring Survey, Birth Defects Res Part A Clin Mol Teratol, ,
- Kancherla V, Räisänen S, Gissler M, Kramer MR, Heinonen S., 2015, Placenta previa and risk of major congenital malformations among singleton births in Finland., Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. , doi: 10.1002/bdra.23371. [Epub ahead of print],
- Obeid R, Pietrzik K, Oakley GP Jr, Kancherla V, Holzgreve W, Wieser S, 2015, Preventable spina bifida and anencephaly in Europe, Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol, 103, 527-35
- Kancherla V, Drushcel CM, Oakley GM, 2014, A population-based study to investigate mortality in spina bifida - New York State Congenital Malformations Program, Birth Defects Research Part A Clin Mol Teratol, EPub,
- Kancherla V, Romitti PA, Sun L, Carey JC, Burns TL, Siega Riz AM, Druschel CM, Lin A, Olney RS, and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study , 2014, Descriptive and Risk Factor Analysis for Choanal Atresia: The National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS), 1997 - 2007, Eur J Med Genet, ,
- Räisänen S, Kancherla V, Kramer MR, Gissler M, Heinonen S, 2014, Placenta Previa and the Risk of Delivering a Small-for-Gestational-Age Newborn, Obs Gynaecol, ,