Ellen Caniglia, ScD

Dr. Caniglia is a perinatal and HIV epidemiologist who works to improve health outcomes among pregnant people and their children, and among people with HIV. Her work utilizes methods for causal inference to identify optimal treatment and prevention strategies in these populations. She received a K01 award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to estimate the effects of micronutrient supplementation strategies during pregnancy on adverse birth outcomes, to identify barriers to supplementation, and to pilot an intervention to provide supplementation at antenatal clinics in Botswana. Additional current and future projects include evaluating the effects of lifestyle, pharmaceutical, and health services interventions to improve neonatal and maternal outcomes and disparities in these outcomes. Dr. Caniglia collaborates broadly on projects related to causal inference; HIV; and reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology. She is passionate about teaching the next generation of epidemiologists.