Emily Harville
assistant professor

Department(s):
Epidemiology

Email:
eharvill@tulane.edu

Research Interests:
Pregnancy epidemiology; measurement of stress; epidemiologic methods

Professional Achievements:
Small Project Assistance grant, U. S. Peace Corps, 1999
Julie Gatewood Latané residential and senior fellow, Latané Center for Human Science, 2000-2004
Smith Dissertation Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2004
Royster Society of Fellows, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2000-2005
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship in the Biological Sciences, 2000-2005
Michael McMahon Young Investigator Award, UNC Center for Women’s Health Research, 2005

Educational Background:
BA, Biology, Oberlin College, 1998
MSPH, Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, 2002
PhD, Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, 2005

Publications:
Harville EW, Savitz DA, Dole N, Herring AH, Thorp JM. "Stress Questionnaires and Stress Biomarkers During Pregnancy." (2009) J Womens Health. 18(9):1425-33.

Tees MT, Harville EW, Xiong X, Buekens P, Pridjian G, Elkind-Hirsch K. "Hurricane Katrina-Related Maternal Stress, Maternal Mental Health, and Early Infant Temperament." (2009) Matern Child Health J.

Xiong X, Harville EW, Mattison DR, Elkind-Hirsch K, Pridjian G, Buekens P. "Exposure to Hurricane Katrina, post-traumatic stress disorder and birth outcomes." (2008). Am J Med Sci. 336(2):111-5.

A Sivertsen, AJ Wilcox, R Skjaerven, HA Vindenes, F Abyholm, E Harville, RT Lie. "Familial risk of oral clefts by morphological type and severity: population based cohort study of first degree relatives" (2008). BMJ. 336(7641):432-437.

EW Harville, DA Savitz, N Dole, JM Thorp, AH Herring,. “Psychological and biological markers of stress and bacterial vaginosis in pregnant women”. BJOG, in press.

EW Harville, DA Savitz, AH Herring, N Dole, JM Thorp, KC Light. “Patterns of cortisol secretion in pregnancy and implications for assessment protocols” (2007). Biological Psychology, 74: 85-91.

EW Harville, I Hertz-Picciotto, M Schramm, M Watt-Morse, K Chantala, J Osterloh, PJ Parsons, W Rogan (2005). “Factors influencing the relative amount of lead transferred from mother to fetus”. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 62:263-269.

EW Harville, AJ Wilcox, R Lie, H Vindenes, F Aabyholm. “Cleft lip and palate vs. cleft lip alone: Are they separate defects?” (2005) American Journal of Epidemiology. 162: 448-53.

EW Harville, J Zhang, MC Hatch. “Life stress and bacterial vaginosis”. (2005) Journal of Women’s Health,.14: 627-33.

EW Harville, M Schramm, M Watt-Morse, K Chantala, JJB Anderson, I Hertz-Picciotto (2004). “Calcium intake during pregnancy among white and African-American pregnant women in the United States”. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 23:43-50.

EW Harville, J Zhang, MC Hatch (2004). “Oral sex and gum disease”. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 80:418-9.

J Zhang, MC Hatch, D Zhang, J Shulman, EW Harville, AG Thomas. (2004) “Frequency of douching and risk of bacterial vaginosis in African-American women”. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 104:756-60.

EW Harville, AJ Wilcox, DD Baird, CR Weinberg (2003). “Vaginal bleeding in very early pregnancy.” Human Reproduction, 18:1944-7.

Personal Statement:
My focus is reproductive epidemiology. Within that, I work on projects about mechanisms of health disparities: ways that the body might react to social realities or perceptions to negatively affect pregnancy. I look at aspects of psychological stress and how they affect reproductive health, particularly pregnancy and low birth weight. I have been working on projects to follow up the effects of Katrina on pregnant women and their infants. I am also interested in ways to measure stress, methods for studying reproductive epidemiology, and oral clefts.

Contact Information:
Department of Epidemiology
1440 Canal Street, Suite 2000
New Orleans, LA 70112
Telephone: 504.988.4720
Fax: 504.988.1568
eharvill@tulane.edu

Level of Instruction:
graduate