Krista F. G. Huybrechts
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Departments
Department of Epidemiology
Other Positions
Professor of Medicine
Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Biography
Krista F. Huybrechts, M.S., Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an epidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She also holds an appointment as adjunct faculty at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Huybrechts teaches Database Analytics in Pharmacoepidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and guest lectures at Harvard Medical School. She served on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) as Vice President Finance from 2017-2020. She currently serves on the board of Marcé of North America (MONA, Perinatal Mental Health Society) and is a voting member for the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee. She is a member of the Editorial Board of JAMA Psychiatry and an Associate Editor for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
Dr. Huybrechts co-directs the Harvard Program on Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology (H4P). Her research centers on the utilization, comparative safety and effectiveness of prescription medications in pregnant women and their offspring (www.harvardpreg.org). She has a special interest in research methodology and innovative research applications in relation to this field of study.
