Mengmeng

Li

,

MD

Mengmeng Li is interested in data-driven insights in epidemiology and applies them to inform health policy guidelines. Her research focuses on maternal health and health outcomes from perinatal to adolescent developmental stages. She has been a senior data analyst on the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) since the beginning of the longitudinal phase for multiple study sites across five continents. In addition to research involvement with the GEAS, Mengmeng has also worked under the mentorship of Dr. Xiaobin Wang from the Center on the Early Life Origins of Disease (CELOD) to understand the impact of environmental exposures on neurodevelopmental disorders among children. Her recent research project, on a broader (population level) and molecular scales, investigates the influence of maternal exposure to PM2.5, air pollutant particles with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less, during pregnancy on childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) risk. This project focuses on a racial-ethnically diverse and socioeconomically disadvantaged population from an urban setting in Boston, United States, comprising the Boston Birth Cohort (BBC).

Besides the research endeavors described above, Mengmeng Li collaborates with reproductive endocrinologists nationwide on multiple projects to unravel maternal profile or treatment parameters from assisted reproductive technology that inform In-vitro Fertilization (IVF) outcomes. Besides four ongoing projects, she has published three peer-reviewed articles as the first and corresponding author in the leading journals in the field.

She holds a medical degree from Nanjing Medical University in China and an MSPH in Maternal, Fetal, and Perinatal Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The provided link includes a complete list of publications summarizing Mengmeng’s research activities.