Wendy Nembhard

Federal Grant PI High Impact

Professor

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

faculty

Epidemiology, College of Public Health

WNNembhard@uams.edu

33 h-index 243 pubs 5,358 cited

Research Areas

Birth, Development, and Health Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions Health disparities and outcomes Child and Adolescent Health COVID-19 epidemiological studies SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

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Wendy Nembhard is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of birth defects and related health outcomes. She has led multiple large-scale studies investigating the prevalence, risk factors, and long-term survival of individuals with congenital anomalies.

Nembhard has served as PI on four federal grants totaling over $3.7 million from the NIH. These grants have supported research on birth defects and pregnancy exposures, including the Birth Defects Study to Evaluate Pregnancy exposureS (BD-STEPS) and a study on disparities in immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in Arkansas. Her work has resulted in an extensive publication record, with over 240 publications and a citation count of over 5,300. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 33, and she is recognized as a high-impact researcher.

Her research group collaborates with several colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Jenil Patel, Danielle Boothe, Emine Bircan, and J. Craig Forrest. Nembhard's work contributes to understanding the health trajectories and needs of populations affected by birth defects, with a particular emphasis on identifying and addressing health disparities.

Metrics

h-index: 33
Publications: 243
Citations: 5,358

Selected Publications

Comorbidities and Healthcare Utilization Among Young Adults With Congenital Heart Defects by Down Syndrome Status—Congenital Heart Survey to Recognize Outcomes, Needs, and <scp>wellbeinG</scp>, 2016–2019 (2025) DOI
Risk of carcinomas among children and adolescents with birth defects (2025) DOI
Maternal Exposure to Tap Water Disinfection By‐Products and Risk of Selected Congenital Heart Defects (2024) DOI
Enhancing the Classification of Congenital Heart Defects for Outcome Association Studies in Birth Defects Registries (2024) DOI
Gastroschisis prevalence patterns in 27 surveillance programs from 24 countries, International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research, 1980–2017 (2024) DOI
National population‐based estimates for major birth defects, 2016–2020 (2024) DOI
Fever and antibiotic use in maternal urinary tract infections during pregnancy and risk of congenital heart defects: Findings from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (2023) DOI
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects (2023) DOI
Neighborhood social deprivation and healthcare utilization, disability, and comorbidities among young adults with congenital heart defects: Congenital heart survey to recognize outcomes, needs, and well‐being 2016–2019 (2023) DOI
Rare variants in CAPN2 increase risk for isolated hypoplastic left heart syndrome (2023) DOI
Associations between birth defects with neural crest cell origins and pediatric embryonal tumors (2023) DOI
Gender disparities in symptomology of COVID-19 among adults in Arkansas (2023) DOI
Comparison of Trihalomethane exposure assessment metrics in epidemiologic analyses of reproductive and developmental outcomes (2023) DOI
Cardiology Care and Loss to Follow-Up Among Adults With Congenital Heart Defects in CH STRONG (2023) DOI
A multi‐program analysis of cleft lip with cleft palate prevalence and mortality using data from 22 International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research programs, 1974–2014 (2023) DOI

Federal Grants 4 $3,711,648 total

NIH/National Center for Chronic Disease Prev and Health Promo Contact PI Sep 2024 - Sep 2029

DP24-004, PRC, Core: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers

National Center for Chronic Disease Prev and Health Promo $1,000,000 U48

NIH/National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Contact PI Sep 2023 - Aug 2027

Birth Defects Study to Evaluate Pregnancy exposureS (BD-STEPS) Core? Arkansas Center and Stillbirth

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities $855,000 U01

NIH/NIH Office of the Director Contact PI Sep 2020 - Feb 2025

DISCOVAR:Disparities in Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in ARkansas

NIH Office of the Director $906,648 U01

NIH/National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Contact PI Dec 2018 - Aug 2023

RFA-DD-18-001 Birth Defects Study To Evaluate Pregnancy exposures (BD-STEPS) II Core & Component B Steps -Stillbirth

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases $950,000 U01

Grants & Funding

No FP attached UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
DISCOVAR:Disparities in Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in ARkansas NIH Principal Investigator
DISCOVAR:Disparities in Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in ARkansas NIH Principal Investigator
No FP attached UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
DISCOVER:Disparities in Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in ARkansas NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute Principal Investigator
No FP attached UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
Genetic Overlap Between Anomalies and Cancer in Kids (GOBACK Study) UAMS ACHRI Flow Through Principal Investigator
DP24-004, PRC, Core: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers NIH Principal Investigator