Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Paul Klee, cropped image of Protected Children, 1939.
I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Primary Care Research Fellowship, which is based at the UWSMPH Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. I am broadly interested in combining administrative data sources (such as birth records and health insurance claims) to answer a variety of questions in maternal and child health. My primary area of research measures the impact of pre- and early-life health on the development, well-being, and health care receipt of infants, mothers, and family members. This includes investigating socioeconomic, racial, and geographic disparities in prenatal health (care) and its consequences on family health outcomes. A secondary line of research focuses on developing methods for esimating health-related spillover effects within families—that is, how one individual's health can affect their family member's health—using graphical causal models (i.e., directed acyclic graphs, or DAGs).
My current major project, "Racial and Geographic Disparities of Prenatal Care Coordination in Wisconsin," uses linked birth records and Medicaid claims to investigate whether Prenatal Care Coordination reaches and benefits populations with elevated risks of adverse birh outcomes. This includes Black and Indigeneous populations as well as communities in highly rural or highly urban areas. This is a collaborative project with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and this study is supported by the UW-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research AHEAD Pilot Award (July 2023-June 2024).
I earned my PhD in Population Health Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021.
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Mallinson DC, Elwert F, Ehrenthal DB (2024). Spillover effects of gestational age on sibling's literacy. Early Child Development and Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2023.2301420 [Online ahead of print]
Mallinson DC, Elwert F, Ehrenthal DB (2023). Spillover effects of Prenatal Care Coordination on older siblings beyond the mother-infant dyad. Medical Care. 61(4):206-215. https://doi.org/10.1097/mlr.0000000000001822
Rubenstein E, Ehrenthal DB, Nobles J, Mallinson DC, Bishop L, Jenkins MC, Kuo H, Durkin MS (2022). Brief report: Fertility rates in women with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Wisconsin Medicaid. Disability and Health Journal. 15(3):101321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2022.101321
Mallinson DC, Elwert F (2022). Estimating sibling spillover effects with unobserved confounding using gain-scores. Annals of Epidemiology. 67(March 2022):73-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.12.010
Mallinson DC, Larson A, Berger LM, Grodsky E, Ehrenthal DB (2020). Estimating the effect of Prenatal Care Coordination in Wisconsin: a sibling fixed effects analysis. Health Services Research. 55(1):82-93. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13239
Mallinson DC, Grodsky E, Ehrenthal DB (2019). Gestational age, kindergarten-level literacy, and effect modification by maternal socio-economic and demographic factors. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 33(6):467-479. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12588
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