Henning Tiemeier

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Biography

Henning Tiemeier, MA, MD, PhD, is Professor of Social and Behavioral Science and the Sumner and Esther Feldberg Chair of Maternal and Child Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Tiemeier received both his medical and sociological degrees from the University of Bonn, Germany, and his PhD from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Since 2018, he leads the Maternal and Child Center of Excellence at Harvard Chan. As one of just 13 HRSA-funded Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health in the United States, the center trains future leaders in the field. Dr. Tiemeier has worked broadly in pediatric epidemiology for more than 20 years with an emphasis on child developmental research. At Harvard his research focuses on high-risk children, such as preterm children and children born to incarcerated mothers. Together with Bethany Kotlar, he has helped set up a cohort of children born to incarcerated mothers in Georgia and the conduct mixed methods research.

Dr. Tiemeier has published extensively on the etiology of child developmental problems with a particular focus on prenatal exposures. His other research interests include social and family environmental determinants of brain development, parental feeding and child eating behavior, and psychometric studies of child development, among others. He is a principal investigator of the Generation R Study, a large pre-birth cohort in Rotterdam, that enrolled nearly 10,000 mothers and their children. Ongoing research projects and interests focus on genetic and early life exposures; as his previous work showed that this shapes the vulnerability to neurodevelopmental problems. His ongoing studies include investigate how parenting and other environmental risk factors relate to brain development as assessed by braining imaging.

Dr. Tiemeier has advised numerous masters, doctoral and postdoctoral students as a mentor, academic advisor, and dissertation committee member. He is also a Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dr. Tiemeier is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher (General Social Science).

Publications

• Exposure to high temperature and sleep in preadolescents from two European birth cohorts.

  Essers E, Granés L, Botella N, Petricola S, González-Safont L, Arregi A, Vegas O, Vrijheid M, Iñiguez C, El Marroun H, Tiemeier H, Guxens M. Environ Int 2025 May 19

  PMID: 40424701

• Outdoor air pollution, road traffic noise, and allostatic load in children aged 6-11 years: evidence from six European cohorts.

  Mou Y, Kusters MSW, Robinson O, Maitre L, McEachan RRC, Yuan WL, Hjertager Krog N, Andrušaityte S, Bustamante M, de Castro Pascual M, Dedele A, Wright J, Grazuleviciene R, Aasvang GM, Lepeule J, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Tiemeier H, Vrijheid M, Thomson EM, Guxens M. Eur J Epidemiol 2025 May 14

  PMID: 40366609

• Long-Term Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Noise and Dynamic Brain Connectivity across Adolescence.

  López-Vicente M, Kusters M, Binter AC, Petricola S, Tiemeier H, Muetzel R, Guxens M. Environ Health Perspect 2025

  PMID: 40131185

• The quandary of high-quality evaluation in complex child welfare systems.

  Kotlar B, Tiemeier H. Nat Med 2025

  PMID: 40312588

• Vascular-related biological stress, DNA methylation, allostatic load and domain-specific cognition: an integrated machine learning and causal inference approach.

  Waziry R, Williams OA, Tiemeier H, Miles C. BMC Neurol 2025 Apr 23

  PMID: 40269737