Maeve Wallace

Biographic Data

ID5070923
NAMEMaeve Wallace
GIVEN NAMESMaeve
FAMILY NAMEWallace
SIGNATUREWALLACE M
AFFILIATIONSTulane University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS95
WORKS AS AUTHOR44
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Impacts of Medicaid Expansion on Contraceptive Use Among Women in Neighborhoods of Racialized Socioeconomic Deprivation in the United States

    Open AccessAlice F Cartwright, Gustavo Angeles et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2025

  • Overall and race-specific associations between state-level minimum wage policy and food insecurity in the United States

    Sophia L Freije, Maeve Wallace et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025References: 22

    BACKGROUND: In the USA, states can set higher minimum wages than the federal government. We investigated the association between state minimum wages and racial/ethnic inequities in food insecurity. METHODS: Household-level food insecurity and sociodemographic data were obtained from the cross-sectional Current Population Survey 2015-2019 (n=189 665 households) and merged by state and year with minimum wage and cost-of-living data obtained from th…

  • The Association Between Structural Disadvantage and Adverse Birth Outcomes

    Open AccessEmma A Blackson, Briana Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2025References: 22

    Patterns of risk for adverse birth outcomes, including low birth weight and preterm birth, are influenced by structural disadvantage. The Structural Racism Effect Index (SREI) measures these disadvantages across nine different domains, including education, income, housing, and employment. This study examines the association between structural disadvantage, as measured by the SREI, and adverse birth outcomes in the USA. Using the National Center f…

  • The Southern Center for Maternal Health Equity (SCMHE)

    Open AccessMelissa Goldin Evans, Maeve Wallace et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: The maternal mortality crisis in the United States disproportionately affects women who are Black, especially those living in the Gulf South. These disparities result from a confluence of healthcare, policy, and social factors that systematically place Black women at greater risk of maternal morbidities and mortality. This study protocol describes the Southern Center for Maternal Health Equity (SCMHE), a research center funded by th…

  • Association of Food Desert Residency and Preterm Birth in the United States

    Open AccessChanell O Haley, Chelsea R Singleton et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    It is salient, particularly for Black birthing people who experience high rates of adverse birth outcomes, that the role of food desert residency be explored within maternal and child health disparities

  • Building Collective Power to Advance Maternal and Child Health Equity

    Open AccessIman Johnson, Dovile Vilda et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2024

    As the maternal health crisis continues, coalitions like the New Orleans MCH Coalition provide a vehicle to amplify the mission-driven work of people and organizations. Recommendations put forth by the Coalition can also be utilized by coalitions in other jurisdictions

  • Maternity Care Deserts in Louisiana and Breastfeeding Initiation

    Open AccessChanell O Haley, Lily E King et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2024

    Reducing rural and racial inequities in breastfeeding may require structural changes and investments in infrastructure to deliver pregnancy care

  • Neighborhood‐level racialized socioeconomic deprivation and contraceptive use in the United States, 2011–2019

    Open AccessAlice F Cartwright, Maeve Wallace et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Sexual and…2024References: 2

    This study highlights the salience of structural factors for contraceptive use and the need for continued examination of structural oppressions to inform health policy

  • Investigating the Black Birth Experience

    Open AccessLauren Dyer, Jé Judson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2024References: 3

    Police-related violence may be a source of chronic stress underlying entrenched racial inequities in reproductive health in the USA. Using publicly available data on police-related fatalities, we estimated total and victim race-specific rates of police-related fatalities (deaths per 100,000 population) in 2018-2019 for Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) and counties within MSAs in the USA. Rates were linked to data on live births by maternal MS…

  • Unequal Spatial Consequences of Abortion Restrictions in Texas, 2021–2023

    Sydney R Sauter, Maeve Wallace et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2024References: 17

    Objectives. To demonstrate the spatially uneven effects of abortion restriction laws in Texas. Methods. We used network analysis to determine the change in distance to the nearest surgical abortion provider for 5253 Texas neighborhoods after the passing of Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8; 2021) and the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) decision. We identified associations between key measures of neighborhood socioecon…

  • Neighborhood Proactive Policing and Racial Inequities in Preterm Birth in New Orleans, 2018‒2019

    Jaquelyn L Jahn, Maeve Wallace et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2023Cited by: 3References: 23

    Objectives. To measure neighborhood exposure to proactive policing as a manifestation of structural racism and its association with preterm birth. Methods. We linked all birth records in New Orleans, Louisiana (n = 9102), with annual census tract rates of proactive police stops using data from the New Orleans Police Department (2018–2019). We fit multilevel Poisson models predicting preterm birth across quintiles of stop rates, controlling for se…

  • Neighborhood Blighted Property Removal and 311 Calls for Non‐Emergency Services

    Open AccessKatherine P Theall, Christopher N Morrison et al.ARTICLEGeographical Analysis2022

    Many studies have demonstrated that collective efficacy is associated with positive health outcomes, lower crime, and violence in urban communities, and residents’ emotional connection to their community. Remediation of blighted properties has been theoretically linked to increases in collective efficacy. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of blighted property remediation on city non‐emergency 311 calls for public incivilities an…

  • The public health exposome and pregnancy-related mortality in the United States

    Open AccessEmily W Harville, Stephen K Grady et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    In this high-dimensional analysis, overall life expectancy, poverty indicators, and health behaviors were found to be the strongest predictors of pregnancy-related mortality. This provides strong evidence that maternal death is part of a broader constellation of both similar and unique health behaviors, social determinants and environmental exposures as other causes of death

  • State-Level Recommendations to Reduce Inequities in Sexually Transmitted Infections

    Open AccessMelissa Goldin Evans, Maeve Wallace et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2022

  • Income Inequality and Pregnancy-Associated Homicide in the US

    Open AccessLauren Dyer, Dovile Vilda et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2022References: 6

    Pregnancy-associated homicide remains an understudied yet critical issue. Using restricted use mortality files provided by the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Violent Death Reporting System, annual state-level pregnancy-associated homicide ratios were estimated as the count of deaths divided by the number of live births. The exposure, the state Gini index, was categorized into tertiles to compare states by levels of income …

  • Eviction as a social determinant of pregnancy health

    Open AccessEmily W Harville, Maeve Wallace et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2022Cited by: 2References: 2

    Access to housing is an important manifestation of structural racism and discrimination, and birth outcomes show wide health disparities, but few studies have examined eviction and birth outcomes. This multilevel study merged data from the Eviction Lab on 2015 eviction judgements and records with the National Center for Health Statistics natality dataset. The analytic sample included 2,950,965 births across 5924 counties in 45 states. Outcomes of…

  • Neighborhood matters

    Open AccessJulia M Fleckman, Stephanie Tokarz et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2022Cited by: 1References: 79

  • Trends in Pregnancy-Associated Homicide, United States, 2020

    Maeve Wallace, Maeve E WallaceARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2022Cited by: 1References: 10

    Objectives. To estimate the national pregnancy-associated homicide rate in 2020 and to characterize patterns of victimization. Methods. Using a retrospective analysis of the 2020 US national mortality file, I identified all homicides of women who were pregnant or within 1 year of the end of pregnancy. Descriptive statistics characterized these victims, and I calculated annual pregnancy-associated homicide rates (deaths per 100 000 live births) fo…

  • Social and Structural Determinants of Health Inequities in Maternal Health

    Open AccessJoia Crear-Perry, Rosaly Correa-De-Araujo et al.ARTICLEJournal of women's health2021

    Since the World Health Organization launched its commission on the social determinants of health (SDOH) over a decade ago, a large body of research has proven that social determinants—defined as the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—are significant drivers of disease risk and susceptibility within clinical care and public health systems. Unfortunately, the term has lost meaning within systems of care because of misuse…

  • The Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) and Pregnancy-Associated Mortality in Louisiana, 2016–2017

    Open AccessLauren Dyer, Brittany D Chambers Butcher et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2021

  • Structural racism, racial inequities and urban–rural differences in infant mortality in the US

    Open AccessDovile Vilda, Rachel R Hardeman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2021Cited by: 3References: 35

    BACKGROUND: While evidence shows considerable geographic variations in county-level racial inequities in infant mortality, the role of structural racism across urban-rural lines remains unexplored. The objective of this study was to examine the associations between county-level structural racism (racial inequity in educational attainment, median household income and jail incarceration) and infant mortality and heterogeneity between urban and rura…

  • State Abortion Policies and Maternal Death in the United States, 2015‒2018

    Dovile Vilda, Maeve Wallace et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2021Cited by: 11References: 19

    Objectives. To examine associations between state-level variation in abortion-restricting policies in 2015 and total maternal mortality (TMM), maternal mortality (MM), and late maternal mortality (LMM) from 2015 to 2018 in the United States. Methods. We derived an abortion policy composite index for each state based on 8 state-level abortion-restricting policies. We fit ecological state-level generalized linear Poisson regression models with robu…

  • Building Governmental Public Health Capacity to Advance Health Equity

    Open AccessDanielle L Broussard, Maeve Wallace et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2020

    Vast health inequities persist in cities across the United States. Although recommendations exist to guide governmental public health institutions seeking to advance population health equity, local contexts are likely to influence how these pursuits take shape. We review recommendations for pursuing equity that were developed from an environmental scan conducted in the city of New Orleans. The recommendations, which are based on perspectives prov…

  • Cross-sectional associations between the neighborhood built environment and physical activity in a rural setting

    Open AccessJeanette Gustat, Christopher E Anderson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Significant associations between features of the environment (overall and aesthetic scores) with leisure time PA were observed among adults in this rural population. Built environment interventions in rural settings face additional barriers of lower population density and greater distances for infrastructure projects, and it is important to identify approaches that are both feasible for rural communities and can promote PA

  • Maternity Care Deserts and Pregnancy-Associated Mortality in Louisiana

    Open AccessMaeve Wallace, Lauren Dyer et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2020