Margaret Holland
University of Rochester
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maggie Holland, PhD, MPH is a health services researcher at the University of Rochester. She currently holds joint appointments in the Department of Pediatrics (General Academic Pediatrics Fellow) and the School of Nursing (Postdoctoral Research Associate). Her research focuses on low-income mothers and children, with the goal of improving health and overall life success (broadly defined to include educational achievement, cognitive development, behavioral issues, and economic self-sufficiency). She is especially interested in home visitation programs and how to promote their successful implementation in real-world (non-research) settings. Maggie learned about home visiting primarily by conducting several secondary data analyses using data from trials of one home visiting program (Nurse-Family Partnership). She studied the impact of various sources of maternal stress on birth weight, finding that neighborhood-level factors were the strongest predictor of lower birth weight. She also studied the impact of maternal depression on child healthcare utilization and the roles of self-efficacy and mother-child interactions in this association. Maggie is currently collaborating with researchers at the University of Chicago to examine the pathways through which home visitation improves outcomes. In addition, she is conducting qualitative interviews to learn why low-income new mothers leave a home visitation program before completion. She received her PhD in Health Services Research and Policy from the University of Rochester in 2009.
Working Group
Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)