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Monica
McGrath
,
ScD

Research Professor
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Departmental Affiliations

Primary
Division
General Epidemiology and Methodology

Monica McGrath, ScD, MHS '98, directs the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes data center and studies environmental influences on child health and development.

Contact Info

700 E. Pratt Street, Room 1014
Baltimore
Maryland
21231
US        

Research Interests

ECHO; epidemiology; child health; child behavior

Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
ScD
Harvard School of Public Health
2004
MHS
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
1998
BS
College of William and Mary
1995
Overview

Project Director
Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Data Analysis Center (DAC)

 

The goal of the Environmental influences on Child Health outcomes (ECHO) Program is to understand the effects of a broad range of early environmental influences on child health and development. ECHO is dedicated to both learning what factors affect child health and to finding ways to enhance it.

 

 

Select Publications

ECHO DAC-funded work.

  • McGowan EC, McGrath M, Law A, O'Shea TM, Aschner JL, Blackwell CK, Fry RC, Ganiban JM, Higgins R, Margolis A, Sathyanarayana S, Taylor G, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Spillane NT, Hudak ML, Camargo CA Jr, Dabelea D, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Ferrara AM, Talavera-Barber M, Singh AM, Karagas MR, Karr C, O'Connor TG, Paneth N, Wright RJ, Wright RO, Cowell W, Stanford JB, Bendixsen C, Lester BM; program collaborators for Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO). Health Care Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Individuals Born Preterm. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Apr 3;6(4):e2310696. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.10696. PMID: 37115545; PMCID: PMC10148204.

  • Hofheimer JA, McGrath M, Musci R, Wu G, Polk S, Blackwell CK, Stroustrup A, Annett RD, Aschner J, Carter BS, Check J, Conradt E, Croen LA, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Law A, Leve LD, Neiderhiser JM, O'Shea TM, Salisbury AL, Sathyanarayana S, Singh R, Smith LM, Aguiar A, Angal J, Carliner H, McEvoy C, Ondersma SJ, Lester B; Program Collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes. Assessment of Psychosocial and Neonatal Risk Factors for Trajectories of Behavioral Dysregulation Among Young Children From 18 to 72 Months of Age. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Apr 3;6(4):e2310059. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.10059. PMID: 37099294; PMCID: PMC10134008.

  • Nguyen RHN, Knapp EA, Li X, Camargo CA, Conradt E, Cowell W, Derefinko KJ, Elliott AJ, Friedman AM, Khurana Hershey GK, Hofheimer JA, Lester BM, McEvoy CT, Neiderhiser JM, Oken E, Ondersma SJ, Sathyanarayana S, Stabler ME, Stroustrup A, Tung I, McGrath M. Characteristics of Individuals in the United States Who Used Opioids During Pregnancy. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2022 Nov 9. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2022.0118. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36350685.

  • Dunlop AL, Burjak M, Dean LT, Alshawabkeh AN, Avalos LA, Aschner JL, Breton CV, Charifson MA, Cordero J, Dabelea D, D'Sa V, Duarte CS, Elliott AJ, Eick SM, Ferrara A, Fichorova RN, Ganiban JM, Gern JE, Hedderson MM, Herbstman JB, Hipwell AE, Huddleston KC, Karagas M, Karr C, Kerver JM, Koinis-Mitchell D, Lyall K, Madan J, Marsit C, McEvoy CT, Meeker JD, Oken E, O'Shea TM, Padula AM, Sathyanarayana S, Schantz S, Schmidt RJ, Snowden J, Stanford JB, Weiss S, Wright RO, Wright RJ, Zhang X, McGrath M. Association of maternal education, neighborhood deprivation, and racial segregation with gestational age at birth by maternal race/ethnicity and United States Census region in the ECHO cohorts. Front Public Health. 2023 Nov 30;11:1165089. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1165089. PMID: 38098826; PMCID: PMC10719953.

  • Brennan PA, Nozadi SS, McGrath M, Churchill ML, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, MacKenzie D, Margolis AE, Ghassabian A, McEvoy CT, Fry RC, Bekelman TA, Ganiban JM, Williams L, Wilson CL, Lewis J; program collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes. COVID-19 Stress and Child Behavior: Examining Discrimination and Social Support in Racially Diverse ECHO Cohorts. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 May;63(5):528-538. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2023.07.996. Epub 2023 Aug 4. PMID: 37544643; PMCID: PMC10838355.

Projects
Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)