Researchers

Researcher	Affiliation	Expertise	COVID-19 research link
Celestina Barbosa-Leiker, PhD	College of Nursing	Pregnancy and parenthood in women with substance use disorder	Stress and coping during COVID-19 pandemic during pregnancy and parenthood
Masha Gartstein, PhD	College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Psychology	Infant reactivity and regulation; Biological and contextual determinants of infant temperament	COVID-19-related stress during pregnancy; Effects on maternal well-being and infant behavioral outcomes
Courtney Meehan, PhD	College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Anthropology	Human milk composition, maternal-infant microbiomes, and cross-cultural perspectives on maternal care giving and infant/child development	Identifying whether SARS-CoV-2 is present and viable in human milk and transmissible from mother to infant or infant to mother via breastfeeding
Beatrice Caffe, B.A. (graduate student)	College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Anthropology	Human milk composition and milk immune factors	Identifying whether SARS-CoV-2 is present and viable in human milk and transmissible from mother to infant or infant to mother via breastfeeding
Erica Crespi, PhD	College of Arts and Sciences; School of Biological Sciences	Stress physiology and endocrinology; Endocrine mechanisms of developmental programming	Stress and coping during COVID-19 pandemic during pregnancy and parenthood, and on infant/child stress and behavior
Jennifer Madigan, B.S. (graduate student)	College of Arts and Sciences; School of Biological Sciences	Stress physiology and endocrinology; Endocrine mechanisms of developmental programming	Stress and coping during COVID19 pandemic during pregnancy and parenthood, and on infant/child stress and behavior
Sara Waters, PhD	College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS); Department of Human Development	Biological and relational determinants of infant self-regulation development; Parent-child biological stress transmission	Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on parenting, family stress, infant self-regulation, and maternal and infant health
Ekaterina Burduli, PhD	College of Nursing	Maternal and newborn birth outcomes; Perinatal women with substance use disorders	Maternal birth-satisfaction, maternal drug use/drug relapse, maternal postpartum depression and stress, and maternal-newborn attachment, during COVID-19 pandemic during pregnancy and postpartum
Luciana Hebert, PhD	Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine; Medical Education and Clinical Sciences	Reproductive, and women’s health; Maternal and child health; Quantitative data analysis	Financial hardship, stress and coping among pregnant and parenting women during the COVID-19 pandemic
Cara Carty, PhD	Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine; Medical Education and Clinical Sciences	Maternal and child health; Study design and data analysis	Substance use and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic; COVID-19 health disparities
Crystal Lederhos Smith, PhD	Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine; Health Policy Administration	Substance use and co-use in high risk populations	Substance use, stress and coping in pregnant and parenting women during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anna Zamora-Kapoor, PhD	Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Departments of Sociology and Medical Education and Clinical Sciences	Health disparities, social determinants of health, breastfeeding and obesity prevention.	Interest in examining health disparities in maternal and child health outcomes.
Janessa Graves, PhD, MPH	College of Nursing	Rural health, access to care, injury research, disparities, health services research, survey research methods	Impact of COVID-19 on stress, loneliness, well-being across rurality; use of telemedicine in context of COVID-19; impact of COVID-19 on well-being/work-life balance of academics
Ally Avery, MS	Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Nutrition and Exercise Physiology	Research study design and coordination, survey research methods	Impact of COVID-19 on mental health and general wellbeing. Data collection ongoing in adult twins and parents of twins under 13.