Maureen M. Black, PhD

MMB

 

Co-Principal Investigator

Email: mblack@peds.umaryland.edu
Tel:     (410) 706-8308

 

 

 

Maureen Black is the Co-Principal Investigator for the Children’s HealthWatch Baltimore site at the University of Maryland.  Her research interests include maternal and child health.

Dr. Black was the associate editor of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology and served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Clinical Psychology Review.  Currently, Dr. Black is the John A. Scholl Professor of Pediatrics and the director of the Growth and Nutrition Clinic at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  She is also an adjunct professor in the psychology department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 

Dr. Black received her BA from Pennsylvania State University in Mathematics and her PhD at Emory University in Psychology.

Area of Expertise:

  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Developmental Psychology

  

Awards:

In 2002, Dr. Black was awarded the Interinstitutional Collaboration - Regent’s Award at the University of Maryland.  In 2009, she was elected to be on the Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP) for the American Psychological Association and awarded the Virginia A. Beal Lectureship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Also in 2009, she was awarded the Logan Wright Research Award in the Society of Pediatric Psychology.

  

Selected peer-reviewed publications

  • Mitola AL, Papas MA, Li K, Fusillo L, Black MM (2007). Satisfaction in adol body image between female caregivers & teens from low-income African American comm. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 31, 42-51.
  • Engle PL, Black MM, Behrman JR, Cabral de Mello M, Gertler PJ, Kapiriri L, Martorell R, Young ME International Child Development Committee (Grantham-McGregor S, Black MM, Engle PL, Lozoff B, Gardner JM, Wachs TD, Walker SP). (2007). Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential among over 200 million children.  The Lancet, 369, 230-242.
  • Walker SP, Wachs TD, Gardner JM, Lozoff B, Wasserman G, Pollitt E, Carter J. International Child Development Committee (Grantham-McGregor S, Engle PL, Black MM, Lozoff B, Gardner JM, Wachs TD, Walker SP). (2007). Child development: Risk factors for adverse outcomes. The Lancet, 369, 145-157.
  • Grantham-McGregor S, Cheung YB, Cueto S, Glewwe P, Richter L, Strupp B. International Child Development Steering Group (Grantham-McGregor S, Engle PL, Black MM, Lozoff B, Gardner JM, Wachs TD, Walker SP). (2007). Over two hundred million children fail to reach their developmental potential in the first five years in developing countries. The Lancet, 369, 60-70
  • Black MM, Bentley ME, Papas MA, Oberlander SE, Teti LO, et al., (2006). Delaying second births among adolescent mothers: Randomized controlled trial home-based mentoring program. Pediatrics. 118 (4).
  • WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group* (2006). WHO Motor development study: Windows of achievement for six gross motor development milestones. Acta Paediatrica, 450, 86-95. *Garza C, de Onis M, Martorell R, Dewey KG, Black M.

  • WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group* (2006). Assessment of sex differences and heterogeneity in motor milestone attainment among populations in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. Acta Paediatrica, 450, 66-75. *Martorell R, de Onis M, Martines J, Black M, Onyango A, Dewey KG..

  • Cook, JT,  Frank, DA, Levenson, SM, Neault, NB, Heeren, TC, Black, MM. (2006). Child food insecurity increases risks posed by household food insecurity to child health. Journal of Nutrition, 136, 1073-1076.
  • Black, MM, Papas, MA, Cureton, PA, Saunders, A. Robinson, N, Le, K, Bentley, M. E.  (2006). Overweight adolescent African American mothers gain weight in spite of intention to lose weight. JADA, 106, 80-87.
  • Kiser LJ, & Black MM. (2005).   Family process in the midst of urban poverty: What does the trauma literature tell us?. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 10, 715-750.