Alison Gernand

Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Global Health; Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences

Alison Gernand

Huck Graduate Students

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

PlacentaNet: Automatic Morphological Characterization of Placenta Photos with Deep Learning

Yukun Chen, Chenyan Wu, Zhuomin Zhang, Jeffery Goldstein, Alison Gernand, J Wang, on p. 487-495

Assessment of an AI-based tool for population-wide collection of placental morphological data

E. J. Camm, G. Wong, Y. Pan, J. Z. Wang, J. A. Goldstein, A. Arcot, C. N. Murphy, H. Hansji, Y. T. Mangwiro, R. Saffery, M. E. Wlodek, C. S. Wyrwoll, A. D. Gernand, T. J. Kaitu'u-Lino, 2024, European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology on p. 110-117

Prenatal but not continued postpartum vitamin D supplementation reduces maternal bone resorption as measured by C-terminal telopeptide of type 1 collagen without effects on other biomarkers of bone metabolism

Christine Krupa, Huma Qamar, Karen M. O'Callaghan, Akpevwe Onoyovwi, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Tahmeed Ahmed, Alison D. Gernand, Daniel E. Roth, 2024, Endocrine and Metabolic Science

Maternal prenatal, with or without postpartum, vitamin D3 supplementation does not improve maternal iron status at delivery or infant iron status at 6 months of age: Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

Karen M. O'Callaghan, Huma Qamar, Alison D. Gernand, A. K. Onoyovwi, Stanley Zlotkin, Abdullah A. Mahmud, Tahmeed Ahmed, Farhana K. Keya, Daniel E. Roth, 2023, BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health on p. 282-292

Care plan for individuals at risk for preeclampsia: shared approach to education, strategies for prevention, surveillance, and follow-up

James M. Roberts, Tekoa L. King, John R. Barton, Stacy Beck, Ira M. Bernstein, Tiffani E. Buck, Michele A. Forgues-Lackie, Francesca L. Facco, Alison D. Gernand, Cornelia R. Graves, Arundhati Jeyabalan, Alisse Hauspurg, Tracy A. Manuck, Jenny E. Myers, Trashaun M. Powell, Elizabeth F. Sutton, Elizabeth Tinker, Eleni Tsigas, Leslie Myatt, 2023, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology on p. 193-213

Risk factors for inadequate and excessive gestational weight gain in 25 low-and middle-income countries: An individual-level participant meta-Analysis

Anne Marie Darling, Dongqing Wang, Nandita Perumal, Enju Liu, Molin Wang, Tahmeed Ahmed, Parul Christian, Kathryn G. Dewey, Gilberto Kac, Stephen H. Kennedy, Vishak Subramoney, Brittany Briggs, Wafaie W. Fawzi, Ajibola Ibraheem Abioye, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Hasmot Ali, Huseini Wiisibie Alidu, Joao Guilherme Alves, Carla Adriane Leal de Araújo, Shams Arifeen, Rinaldo Artes, Per Ashorn, Ulla Ashorn, Omolola Olukemi Ayoola, Fereidoun Azizi, Ahmed Tijani Bawah, Samira Behboudi-Gandevani, Robin Bernstein, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Valérie Briand, Elvira Beatriz Calvo, Marly Augusto Cardoso, Verena I. Carrara, Thaís Rangel Bousquet Carrilho, Yue Cheng, Gabriela Chico-Barba, Peter Ellis Clayton, Shalean M. Collins, Anthony M. Costello, John Kennedy Cruickshank, Christopher P. Duggan, Pratibha Dwarkanath, Guadalupe Estrada-Gutierrez, Frankie J. Fair, Dayana Rodrigues Farias, Henrik Friis, Alison D. Gernand, Shibani Ghosh, Exnevia Gomo, Austrida Gondwe, 2023, PLoS Medicine

Nutritious Supplemental Foods for Pregnant Women from Food Insecure Settings: Types, Nutritional Composition, and Relationships to Health Outcomes

Mihaela A. Ciulei, Emily R. Smith, Nandita Perumal, Chioniso S. Jakazi, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Alison D. Gernand, 2023, Current Developments in Nutrition

Placental pathology reports: A qualitative study in a US university hospital setting on perceived clinical utility and areas for improvement

Kelly Gallagher, Jane Frances C. Aruma, Christiana N. Oji-Mmuo, Jaimey M. Pauli, William M. Curtin, Jeffery A. Goldstein, Heather L. Stuckey, Alison D. Gernand, 2023, PLoS One

Harmonization of maternal balanced energy-protein supplementation studies for individual participant data (IPD) meta-analyses – finding and creating similarities in variables and data collection

Alison Gernand, Kelly Gallagher, Nita Bhandari, P Kolsteren, A Lee, Y Shafiq, S Taneja, J Tielsch, F Abate, E Baye, Y Berhane, R Chowdhury, T Dailey-Chwalibóg, B de Kok, N Dhabhai, F Jehan, Y Kang, J Katz, S Khatry, C Lachat, S Mazumder, A Muhammad, M Nisar, S Sharma, L Martin, R Upadhyay, P Christian, Grace J. Chan, Mulatu M. Derebe, Fred Van Dyk, Luke C. Mullany, Daniel Erchick, Michelle S. Eglovitch, Chunling Lu, Krysten North, Ingrid E. Olson, Nebiyou Fasil, Workagegnehu T. Kidane, Fisseha Shiferie, Tigest Shiferaw, Fitsum Tsegaye, Sitota Tsegaye, Sheila Isanaka, Rose L. Molina, Michele D. Stojanov, Blair J. Wylie, Amare W. Tadesse, Lieven Huybregts, Laeticia C. Toe, Alemayehu Argaw, 2023, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth on p. 107

Fatty Acid Transfer from Blood to Milk Is Disrupted in Mothers with Low Milk Production, Obesity, and Inflammation

R Walker, Kevin Harvatine, A Ross, E Wagner, S Riddle, Alison Gernand, L Nommsen-Rivers, 2023, Journal of Nutrition on p. 2716-2726

Most-Cited Papers

Micronutrient deficiencies in pregnancy worldwide: Health effects and prevention

Alison D. Gernand, Kerry J. Schulze, Christine P. Stewart, Keith P. West, Parul Christian, 2016, Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology and Metabolism on p. 274-289

Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy and lactation and infant growth

D Roth, Alison Gernand, A Al Mahmud, 2018, New England Journal of Medicine on p. 1881

Maternal-Fetal Inflammation in the Placenta and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Jeffery Goldstein, Kelly Gallagher, Celeste Beck, Rajesh Kumar, Alison D. Gernand, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology

Aflatoxin exposure during the first 1000 days of life in rural South Asia assessed by aflatoxin B<sub>1</sub>-lysine albumin biomarkers

John D. Groopman, Patricia A. Egner, Kerry J. Schulze, Lee S.F. Wu, Rebecca Merrill, Sucheta Mehra, Abu A. Shamim, Hasmot Ali, Saijuddin Shaikh, Alison Gernand, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Keith P. West, Parul Christian, 2014, Food and Chemical Toxicology on p. 184-189

Dietary patterns before and during pregnancy and maternal outcomes: A systematic review

Ramkripa Raghavan, Carol Dreibelbis, Brittany L. Kingshipp, Yat Ping Wong, Barbara Abrams, Alison D. Gernand, Kathleen M. Rasmussen, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Jamie Stang, Kellie O. Casavale, Joanne M. Spahn, Eve E. Stoody, 2019, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on p. 705S-728S

Validity of birth certificate-derived maternal weight data

Lisa M. Bodnar, Barbara Abrams, Marnie Bertolet, Alison D. Gernand, Sara M. Parisi, Katherine P. Himes, Timothy L. Lash, 2014, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology on p. 203-212

Maternal vitamin D status and small-for-gestational-age offspring in women at high risk for preeclampsia

Alison D. Gernand, Hyagriv N. Simhan, Steve Caritis, Lisa M. Bodnar, 2014, Obstetrics and Gynecology on p. 40-48

Dietary patterns before and during pregnancy and birth outcomes: A systematic review

Ramkripa Raghavan, Carol Dreibelbis, Brittany L. Kingshipp, Yat Ping Wong, Barbara Abrams, Alison D. Gernand, Kathleen M. Rasmussen, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Jamie Stang, Kellie O. Casavale, Joanne M. Spahn, Eve E. Stoody, 2019, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on p. 729S-756S

Maternal vitamin D status and spontaneous preterm birth by placental histology in the US collaborative perinatal project

Lisa M. Bodnar, Mark A. Klebanoff, Alison D. Gernand, Robert W. Platt, W. Tony Parks, Janet M. Catov, Hyagriv N. Simhan, 2014, American Journal of Epidemiology on p. 168-176

Plasma volume expansion across healthy pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

Sixtus Aguree, Alison D. Gernand, 2019, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth