The WHRL provides technical support, guidance and mentoring in the following areas:
- Study design
- Data collection instruments
- Maintaining and updating study databases
- Statistical Analysis
WHRL Director: Emily Harville, PhD,
Dr. Emily Harville is a perinatal epidemiologist with interests in how pregnancy and reproduction relate to health throughout the life course, including the biological mechanisms by which health disparities are created. Major projects include studying the relationship between cardiovascular and reproductive health in the Bogalusa Heart Study; effects of disaster, including the COVID pandemic, on pregnant and postpartum women; and creating a consortium of preconception health studies (the PrePARED Consortium). She is an advisor to the CCREOH (Caribbean Consortium for Research in Environmental and Occupational Health) project in Suriname. She teaches the third-level epidemiologic methods course, EPID 7130 Observational Epidemiology, EPID 6600 Epidemiology of Disparities, and SPHU 3170 Foundations of Epidemiology.
WHRL collaborates closely with the Mary Amelia Women’s Center. The WHRL serves not only as a service laboratory for Women’s Health research at Tulane, but also a nexus of integration of sciences such as epidemiology, biostatistics, economics, and behavioral and basic sciences.
Analyst: Laura Perry, PhD
Works closely with the WHRL Director and the BIRCWH Scholars and Mentors to assist in designing studies, forms and analysis plans, performing sample/size/power calculations and stratification/randomization of studies; statistical programming, data analysis, and report writing.
For more information, contact:
Amanda Anderson, PhD
WHRL Director
eharvill@tulane.edu
Laura Perry, PhD
BIRCWH Analyst
lperry5@tulane.edu
