Maureen Durkin, PhD, DrPH

 

Maureen Durkin is an epidemiologist, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, Waisman Center investigator and Affiliate of the Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute and the Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She received her undergraduate degree and PhD in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her MPH and DrPH degrees in epidemiology from Columbia University.  Her research interests include the epidemiology and prevention of: pediatric injuries, developmental disabilities, and perinatal antecedents of neurodevelopmental disorders.  She has developed methods for population-based surveillance of childhood injuries and of developmental disabilities, and has directed international studies of the prevalence and causes of neurodevelopmental disabilities in low income countries.  She also directed a cohort study of neuropsychological outcomes of neonatal brain injuries associated with preterm birth, and is currently a member of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network and the Principal Investigator of the Wisconsin Surveillance of Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities System.  In addition, she is Director of Research and Evaluation for the Injury Free Coalition for Kids, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation devoted to the formation of community and hospital-based childhood injury surveillance and prevention programs.   Selected Publications  Learning and Developmental Disorders, IN Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, Second Edition, Washington, DC: The World Bank, in press.  Factors associated with microcephaly at school age in a very-low-birthweight population. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2003; 45(12):796-801.  Influence of breastfeeding on cognitive outcomes at age 6-8 years: follow-up of very low birth weight infants. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2003; 158(11):1075-82.  Initiation of breastfeeding among mothers of very low birth weight infants. Pediatrics, 2003; 111(6 Pt 1):1337-42.  Long-term cognitive benefits of antenatal corticosteroids for prematurely born children with cranial ultrasound abnormalities. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2002; 186(4):818-25.  The epidemiology of developmental disabilities in low-income countries. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2002; 8:206-11.  Child pedestrian injuries in an urban setting: descriptive epidemiology. Academic Emergency Medicine, 2002; 9 (1):54-62.  Neurological, Psychiatric and Developmental Disorders: Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World.  Institute of Medicine Committee on Nervous System Disorders in Developing Countries, Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2001.  Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for mental retardation among children in Bangladesh. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2000;152:1024-32.   Epidemiology and prevention of traffic injuries to urban children and adolescents. Pediatrics 1999; 103(6):e74:1-8.  Prevention of youth injuries. Journal of the National Medical Association, 1999; 91(10):557-71.  The epidemiology of urban pediatric neurological trauma: evaluation of, and implications for, injury prevention programs. Neurosurgery, 1998; 42(2):300-10.  Prevalence and correlates of mental retardation among children in Karachi, Pakistan. American Journal of Epidemiology,1998; 147(3):281-8.  Beyond mortality: residential placement and the quality of life of children with mental retardation. Editorial, American Journal of Public Health, 1996; 86(10):1359-61.  Validity of hospital discharge data regarding intentionality of pediatric injuries.  Epidemiology,1996; 7(6):644-8.  Epidemiology and prevention of severe assault and gun injuries to children in an urban community. Journal of Trauma.1996; 41(3):667-73.  Injury prevention in an urban setting: challenges and successes. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1995; 72(1):16-30.  Evaluating a Ten Questions screen for childhood disability: reliability and internal structure in different cultures. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1995; 48(5):657-66.  Uses and Limitations of the Ten Questions screen for childhood disability in Pakistan. Journal of Epidemiology Community Health, 1995; 49(4):431-6.  Measures of socioeconomic status for child health research: comparative results from Bangladesh and Pakistan. Social Science and Medicine, 1994:38(9):1289-97.  Validity of the ten questions screen for childhood disability: results from population-based studies in Bangladesh, Jamaica and Pakistan. Epidemiology, 1994; 5:283-9.  Low income neighborhood and the risk of severe pediatric injury: a small area analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 1994:84(4):587-92.  Use of Poisson regression and time series analysis for detecting changes over time in rates of child injury following a prevention program. American Journal of Epidemiology 1994;140(10):943-55.  Effects of a natural disaster on child behavior: evidence for posttraumatic stress.  American Journal of Public Health, 1993; 83(11):1549-53.  Estimates of the prevalence of childhood seizure disorders in communities where professional resources scarce: results from Bangladesh, Jamaica and Pakistan.  Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 1992,6:166-80.  A comparison of the key informant and the community survey methods in the identification of childhood disability in Jamaica. Annals of Epidemiology, 1991; 1:255-61. Contact Information Tel: (608) 263-7507 Fax: (608) 263-2820 Email: mdurkin@wisc.edu Department of Population Health Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison 789 WARF, 610 Walnut Street Madison, WI 53726