Sonia Hernandez-Diaz

Biography

Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, MD, DrPH is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her area of interest is drug safety evaluation from non-randomized data, with a special emphasis on the design, conduct, and analysis of studies in pregnant women and their infants. Examples of her work include inquiries of the comparative safety of psychotropics for pregnant women and their offspring using real world evidence from both pregnancy registries and large healthcare databases. She is Past-President of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and the Society for Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research; and serves as a Special Government Employee for the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee (current Chair), as a member of the NICHD Pregnancy & Neonatology (PN) Study Section, and as member of the Teratogenic Information Services (TERIS) Advisory Board. Through her service to public health institutions she has contributed to the translation of research into policy and actionable recommendations for stakeholders.

Publications

• Epilepsy-pregnancy registries: An update.

  Perucca P, Battino D, Bromley R, Chen L, Craig J, Hernandez-Diaz S, Holmes LB, Koshy KG, Meador KJ, Menon RN, O'Brien TJ, Pennell PB, Zhou D, Tomson T. Epilepsia 2024 Nov 14

• Birth outcomes following bictegravir exposure during pregnancy.

  Olivero R, Williams PL, Sawyer G, Yee LM, Patel K, Hernandez-Diaz S, Powis K, Paul M, Chadwick EG. AIDS 2024 Oct 15

• The association of short-term increases in ambient PM2.5 and temperature exposures with stillbirth: racial/ethnic disparities among Medicaid recipients.

  Shupler M, Huybrechts K, Leung M, Wei Y, Schwartz J, Hernandez-Diaz S, Papatheodorou S. Am J Epidemiol 2024 Oct 07

• Development and validation of claims-based algorithms for estimating gestational age of spontaneous abortion and termination.

  Zhu Y, Hernandez-Diaz S, Bateman BT, Gray KJ, Alt EM, Straub L, Taylor LG, Ouellet-Hellstrom R, Ma Y, Qiang Y, Vine S, Mogun H, Hua W, Huybrechts KF. Am J Epidemiol 2024 Sep 24

• Development and Validation of an Algorithm to Predict Stillbirth Gestational Age in Medicaid Billing Records.

  Thai TN, Smolinski NE, Nduaguba S, Bird S, Straub L, Bateman BT, Hernandez-Diaz S, Huybrechts KF, Rasmussen SA, Winterstein AG. Am J Epidemiol 2024 Sep 20