Paul H. Wise

About

Dr. Paul H. Wise is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology and Developmental Medicine, and Health Policy at Stanford University. He is dedicated to bridging the fields of child health equity, public policy, and international security studies. Wise is also co-Director of the Stanford Center for Prematurity Research and a Senior Fellow in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, as well as the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His work has addressed disparities in birth outcomes, regionalized specialty care for children, and Medicaid within the U.S., and he has focused internationally on women’s and child health in violent and politically complex environments, including Ukraine, Gaza, Central America, Venezuela, and children in detention on the U.S.-Mexico border. Wise is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served in various professional and consultative roles, including as Special Assistant to the U.S. Surgeon General and member of the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Medicine
• Pathology
• Geography
• Obstetrics
• Public relations
• Pediatrics
• Biology
• Criminology

Selected publications

• The effects of armed conflict on the health of women and children

  The Lancet · 2021-01-24 · 446 citations

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• Explaining the Black-White Disparity in Preterm Birth: A Consensus Statement From a Multi-Disciplinary Scientific Work Group Convened by the March of Dimes

  Frontiers in Reproductive Health · 2021-09-02 · 182 citations

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  In 2017-2019, the March of Dimes convened a workgroup with biomedical, clinical, and epidemiologic expertise to review knowledge of the causes of the persistent Black-White disparity in preterm birth (PTB). Multiple databases were searched to identify hypothesized causes examined in peer-reviewed literature, 33 hypothesized causes were reviewed for whether they plausibly affect PTB and either occur more/less frequently and/or have a larger/smaller effect size among Black women vs. White women. W…

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• Multiomics Characterization of Preterm Birth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  JAMA Network Open · 2020 · 103 citations

  Importance: Worldwide, preterm birth (PTB) is the single largest cause of deaths in the perinatal and neonatal period and is associated with increased morbidity in young children. The cause of PTB is multifactorial, and the development of generalizable biological models may enable early detection and guide therapeutic studies. Objective: To investigate the ability of transcriptomics and proteomics profiling of plasma and metabolomics analysis of urine to identify early biological measurements as…

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• The political and security dimensions of the humanitarian health response to violent conflict

  The Lancet · 2021 · 66 citations

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• Multiomic signals associated with maternal epidemiological factors contributing to preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries

  Science Advances · 2023-05-24 · 32 citations

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  Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of death in children under five, yet comprehensive studies are hindered by its multiple complex etiologies. Epidemiological associations between PTB and maternal characteristics have been previously described. This work used multiomic profiling and multivariate modeling to investigate the biological signatures of these characteristics. Maternal covariates were collected during pregnancy from 13,841 pregnant women across five sites. Plasma samples from 231…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HD024124

  NIH · $308k · 1990

Frequent coauthors

• Lisa Chamberlain

  Stanford University

  127 shared

• Wendy Chavkin

  Columbia University

  64 shared

• Olga Saynina

  64 shared

• Diana Romero

  The Graduate Center, CUNY

  57 shared

• Eyal Cohen

  Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

  56 shared

• Douglas K Owens

  Stanford University

  51 shared

• Dena M Bravata

  51 shared

• Henrik Toft Sørensen

  Aarhus University Hospital

  51 shared

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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