Faculty and Staff of The Center for Population and Family Health

Virginia Rauh, Sc.D., M.S.W.
Associate Professor of Clinical Population & Family Health
var1@columbia.edu

EXPERTISE: Reproductive health and birth outcomes,
especially preterm delivery and low birth weight; effects of
poverty on maternal and child health; minority maternal and child
health issues; development of low-income minority children.

Former member, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development; Steering Committee for the Study of Lifestyles in
Pregnancy, Special Review Committee on Infant Day Care;
Advisory Panel on Family Support for the National Center for
Children in Poverty, CSPH.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Culhane JF, Rauh VA, Hogan V, McCollum K, Wadhwa PD. (2002) Racial/Ethnic Differences in BV in Pregnancy: The Role of Individual and Contextual-level Maternal Stress. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Rauh VA, Chew G, Garfinkel R. (2002). Deteriorated housing contributes to high cockroach allergen rates in inner-city households. ‘Using Community-based Participatory Research to Advance Environmental Justice’ (Monograph), Environmental Health Perspectives.

Wadhwa PD, Culhane JF, Rauh VA, Barve SS. (2001) Stress and preterm birth: Neuroendocrine, immune/inflammatory, and vascular mechanisms. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 5(2):119-125.

Rauh VA, Andrews H, Garfinkel R. (2001). The contribution of maternal age to racial disparities in birthweight : A multi-level perspective. American Journal of Public Health , 91(11):1815-1824.

Wadhwa PD, Culhane JF, Rauh VA, Barve SS, Hogan VK, Sandman CA, Hobel CJ, Dunkel-Schetter C, Garite TJ, Glynn L. (2001) Stress, infection and preterm birth: A biobehavioral perspective. Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 15, Suppl. 2: 17-29.

Culhane JF, Rauh VA, McCollum KF, Hogan VK, Agnew K, Wadhwa P. (2001). Maternal stress is associated with bacterial vaginosis in human pregnancy. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 5(2): 127-134.

Rauh VA, Culhane JF, Hogan V (2000). Bacterial vaginosis: A public health problem for women. Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association, 54(3):121-125.

Perera FP, Jedrychowski W, Rauh VA, Whyatt RM. (1999). A molecular epidemiologic research on the effects of environmental pollutants on the fetus. Environmental Health Perspectives, 107 (Supplement 3): 451-460.

Rauh, V., Andrews, H. (1999). Birth outcomes for Asian American adolescents: a high-risk group? (1999). Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association, 54(3):121-125.

Perera, F.P., Whyatt, R., Jedrychowski, W., Rauh, V., Manchester, D., Santella, R., Ottman, R. (1998). Recent developments in molecular epidemiology: a study of the effect of environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on birth outcomes in Poland. American Journal of Epidemiology,147(3):309-14.

Shiono, P.H., Rauh, V.A., Park, M., Lederman, S.A., Zuskar, D. (1997). Ethnic differences in birthweight: the role of lifestyle, social, psychological, medical, and other factors. American Journal of Public Health, 87:787-793.