2024
Shalmali Bane
Stanford University
Paper: A counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth
2023
Safyer McKenzie-Sampson
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Paper: Structural racism, nativity, and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes among Black women in California
2022
Peiyuan Huang
University of Bristol
Title: The impact of maternal coffee consumption on pregnancy and perinatal health: integrating evidence from Mendelian randomisation and paternal negative control analyses in up to 297,852 women
2021
Timothy Nielsen
University of Sydney
Title: Association of multiple maternal inflammatory exposures in pregnancy and child attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder by ten years of age: a population-based cohort study
HONORABLE MENTION
Mingyu Zhang
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: In utero exposure to heavy metals and trace elements and childhood blood pressure in a US urban, low-income, minority birth cohort
2020
Alyssa Harlow
Boston University School of Public Health
Title: A Prospective Study of Male Preconception Marijuana Use and Spontaneous Abortion
HONORABLE MENTION
Jianrong He
Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, UK
Title: Common maternal infections during pregnancy and childhood leukemia in the offspring: Findings from six international birth cohorts.
2019
Dominique Heinke, ScD
Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Title: Risk of stillbirth among fetuses with non-syndromic major birth defects: a population-based cohort study
Honorable mentions:
Alexandra Purdue-Smithe, PhD
Epidemiology Branch, NICHD, NIH
Title: Preconception vitamin D status and offspring sex ratio among women with history of pregnancy loss
Liv Kvalvik, MD, PhD
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
University of Bergen
Title: Five Complications of Term Pregnancies that Increase the Risk of Future Preterm Delivery
2018
Keewan Kim, PhD MPH
Epidemiology Branch, NICHD, NIH
Title: Shorter time to pregnancy with increasing preconception carotene concentrations among women with 1 to 2 previous pregnancy losses
2017
Melanie Jacobson, PhD MPH
Emory University
Title: Thyroid hormones and menstrual cycle function in a longitudinal cohort of premenopausal women
2016
Rema Ramakrishnan, MPH
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of South Florida
Title: Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), 2009 – 2011”
2015
WINNER
Mollie Wood, MPH, PhD
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Title: Prenatal triptan exposure increases externalizing behaviors at three years: results from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
Authors: Mollie E. Wood, Kate Lapane, Jean A. Frazier, Eivind Ystrom, Eric O. Mick, Hedvig Nordeng
Mentor: Kate Lapane, PhD, MS, FISPE
HONORABLE MENTION
Valery A. Danilack, MPH, PhD
Brown University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Women & Infants Hospital, Division of Research, Providence, RI
Title: Development of a risk prediction model for cesarean delivery after labor induction
Authors: Valery A. Danilack, Jennifer A. Hutcheon, Elizabeth W. Triche, David D. Dore, Janet H. Muri, Maureen G. Phipps, David A. Savitz
Mentor: David Savitz, PhD
2014
WINNER
Quaker E. Harmon MD, PhD
Epidemiology Branch, NIEHS, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park NC, USA
Title: The risk of fetal death with preeclampsia
2013 – Jenny L Carwile
2012 – Candice Johnson
2011 – Sunni Mumford
2010 – Jennifer Hutcheon
2009 – Mahsa Yazdy
2008 – Nicole Jones
2007 – Jason D. Pole
2006 – Michael Bloom
2005 – Erika W. Hagen
2004 – Anjel Vahratian
2003 – Anoop Sebastian
2002 – Danelle Lobdell
2001 – William M. Callaghan
2000 – Cuilin Zhang
1999 – Maria Coronad
1998 – Nancy Sonnenfeld
1997 – Unavailable
1996 – Laura Schieve
1995 – Tricia Ting
1994 – Pauline Mendola
1993 – Lyle Palmer
1993 – Claudia Holzman