Bio

Marina N. Carvalho Magalhães is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Suzan Carmichael’s lab in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine. Her overall research goals are to improve health outcomes and advance maternal and infant health equity. Dr. Magalhães is a nurse by training in newborn critical care with a background using clinical research methods, particularly to support nutrition and optimize health outcomes of preterm, very low birthweight (VLBW) infants. Her doctoral research found that personalizing lactation support via biomarker-based text messages during early postpartum is feasible and may prolong lactation among mothers of critically ill infants. This experience, along with the growing maternal health crisis and research silos separating maternal and newborn health, led her to pursue postdoctoral training in perinatal epidemiology. Her current research centers on the health of women and childbearing people by using population-level data to investigate the causes of adverse perinatal health outcomes (i.e. severe maternal morbidity).

Honors & Awards

  • Postdoctoral Training Grant, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute, Stanford Medicine (05/2023 - present)
  • Administrative Supplement, NINR, U.S. National Institutes of Health (11/2022 - present)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford Medicine Center for Population Health Sciences (01/2022 - present)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Global Health Postdoctoral Affiliate, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) (2024 - Present)
  • Board Member, Stanford Latinx Postdoc Association (2022 - Present)
  • Scholar, Stanford Postdoctoral Recruitment Initiative in Sciences and Medicine (PRISM) (2021 - Present)
  • Member, Maternal Child Health Section, American Public Health Association (2020 - Present)
  • Steering Committee Member, Global Maternal Child Health Network, American Public Health Association (2020 - 2022)
  • Student Fellow, Maternal Child Health Section, American Public Health Association (2020 - 2021)

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