Christina A. Porucznik
· ProfessorUniversity of Utah · Family & Preventive Medicine
Active 2006–2026
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About
Dr. Christina A. Porucznik is a Professor in the Division of Public Health and the Vice Dean of Faculty for the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine. She is a doctorally-trained epidemiologist who has worked in nonprofit, government, academic, and corporate settings with scientists, engineers, and policy makers. She received her Master of Science in Public Health and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. Her research interests include appropriately timing measurement of exposures, with a focus on environmental health, studying endocrine disruptors and reproductive endpoints such as fertility, pregnancy outcomes, and breastfeeding. She also concentrates on prescription medications, primarily opioids, and the impact of policy changes on drug dispensing and adverse events. Dr. Porucznik served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer for the CDC at the Utah Department of Health before joining the faculty in 2005.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Demography
- Gerontology
- Pediatrics
- Computer Science
- Geography
- Environmental health
- Pathology
- Gynecology
Selected publications
The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort
American Journal of Epidemiology · 2023 · 177 citations
The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort Study (EWC), a collaborative research design comprising 69 cohorts in 31 consortia, was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2016 to improve children's health in the United States. The EWC harmonizes extant data and collects new data using a standardized protocol, the ECHO-Wide Cohort Data Collection Protocol (EWCP). EWCP visits occur at least once per life stage, but the frequency and timing of the visits v…
JAMA Pediatrics · 2021 · 133 citations
<h3>Importance</h3> Data about the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children compared with adults are needed to inform COVID-19 risk communication and prevention strategies, including COVID-19 vaccination policies for children. <h3>Objective</h3> To compare incidence rates and clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infection among adults and children and estimated household infection risks within a prospective household cohort. <h3>Design, Setting, and Participants</h3> Households with at leas…
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology · 2020 · 58 citations
BACKGROUND: There is variability between women for days of menstrual bleeding, cycle lengths, follicular phase lengths, and luteal phase lengths, related to age and parity. OBJECTIVE: To describe total cycle length; anovulatory cycles; follicular and luteal phase lengths; and days and intensity of menstrual and non-menstrual bleeding in women without known subfertility over the course of 1 year. METHODS: 581 women (3,324 cycles) with no known subfertility (18-40 years of age) were followed for u…
World Neurosurgery · 2020 · 30 citations
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2020 · 26 citations
Differences in jurisdictional public health actions have played a significant role in the relative success of local communities in combating and containing the COVID-19 pandemic. We forecast the possible COVID-19 outbreak in one US state (Utah) by applying empirical data from South Korea and Italy, two countries that implemented disparate public health actions. Forecasts were created by aligning the start of the pandemic in Utah with that in South Korea and Italy, getting a short-run forecast ba…
Recent grants
Peri-Conceptional Biomonitoring
NIH · $2.1M · 2011–2017
NIH · $9.4M · 2016–2025
NIH · $15.0M · 2016–2030
Frequent coauthors
- 136 shared
Joseph B. Stanford
Utah Department of Health
- 58 shared
Melissa S. Stockwell
New York Hospital Queens
- 56 shared
Fatimah S. Dawood
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 56 shared
Vic Veguilla
- 52 shared
Ashton Dixon
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 52 shared
Jazmin Duque
- 36 shared
Karen C. Schliep
- 34 shared
Mia Hashibe
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Education
- 2005
Ph.D., Epidemiology
University of Utah
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