David Mallinson, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Family and Preventive Medicine

Rush Medical College

Rush University

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[Biography | Curriculum Vitae | Selected Publications | Contact Information and Other Links]

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Biography

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Rush University. 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 familiesthat is, how one individual's health can affect their family member's healthusing graphical causal models (i.e., directed acyclic graphs, or DAGs). I have disseminated my research broadly across the applied health sciences. Journals that have published my work include Health Services Research, Medical Care, the Annals of Epidemiology, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, and Preventive Medicine.

I earned my PhD in Population Health Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. Prior to joining Rush University, I completed postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and at the University of Texas-Austin Population Research Center.


Curriculum Vitae

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Selected Publications

Mallinson DC, Nkhoma-Mussa YB, Gillespie KH, Brown RL (2024). Preventing infant mortality through Medicaid-administered Prenatal Care Coordination: evidence from Wisconsin. Health Services Research. Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14437

Mallinson DC, Gillespie KH (2024). Racial and geographic variation of Prenatal Care Coordination receipt in the state of Wisconsin, 2010-2019. Journal of Community Health. 49(4):732-747. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-024-01338-5

Mallinson DC, Kuo H, Kirby RS, Wang Y, Berger LM, Ehrenthal DB (2024). Maternal opioid use disorder and infant mortality in Wisconsin, 2010-2018. Preventive Medicine. 181(April 2024):107914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.107914

Mallinson DC, Elwert F, Ehrenthal DB (2024). Spillover effects of gestational age on sibling's literacy. Early Child Development and Care. 192(2):244-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2023.2301420

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

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


Contact Information and Other Links

By email

david_mallinson [at] rush [dot] edu

By snails

1700 W. Van Buren St. / Suite 470, Room 461H / Chicago, IL 60612

By (a deceased) bird?

@dcmallinson

In the sky

@dcmallinson.bsky.social

Google Scholar

My Google Scholar profile

Rush University

My faculty webpage


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