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Karen Tabb Dina

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Karen Tabb Dina, PhD, MSW is professor in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Social Work and the Beckman Institute. She is a faculty affiliate at Carle Foundation Hospital, the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, and the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives. Her research agenda focuses identifying risk factors for morbidity and mortality among perinatal women and their children while determining clinical factors to improve minority health. Dr. Tabb has authored over 130 publications, including articles in journals such as Ethnicity & Health, General Hospital Psychiatry, The Journal of Affective Disorders and the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. She is an expert collaborator (in the areas of diabetes, mental health, maternal health, and North America) for the Global Burden of Disease Study where she contributes in estimating population morbidity and mortality for 188 countries. She serves on the board of directors for the National Association of Perinatal Social Workers.

Dr. Tabb has received research and training support from several state and federal agencies including the Illinois DHS, the NIH and PCORI.  She has sustained a multi-site PCORI-funded project to engage pregnant and postpartum women as collaborators in perinatal depression research. Currently, she is Principal Investigator (PI) on an Illinois DHS project to improve outcomes in the first 1,000 days of life for 11 counties through systems development efforts.

Her research and commentary have appeared in numerous television, radio and print sources, including TEDx, WILL, WTAX, WCIA, WJBC, WRSP, WBBM, WTTW, InStyle Magazine, and the Washington Post Syndicate to name a few. In 2019, Dr. Tabb received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Thought Leader Award for Leading in Peer-Reviewed Publications, the New Connections Program’s premier honor for early career faculty. In 2024, she became a Full Member of Sigma Xi, the scientific honor society. In 2025, she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

Karen Tabb Dina received her PhD in Social Welfare and a Certificate in Demographic Methods from the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her Master of Social Work, concentrating in Social Policy and Evaluation, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Eastern Michigan University.

Education

BA, Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti

MSW, Social Policy & Evaluation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PhD, Social Welfare and Social Demography, University of Washington, Seattle

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  • Trends in psychotherapy utilization for perinatal mental health 2008–2020

    Tabb, K. M., Beck, D. C., Zhang, X., Hall, S., Tilea, A., Sugg, G., Schroeder, A., Dalton, V. K. & Zivin, K., Nov 2024, In: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 150, 5, p. 416-421 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Association of Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy With Childhood Blood Pressure and Hypertension in the ECHO Cohort

    Shorey-Kendrick, L. E., Ladd-Acosta, C., Zhao, H., Aschner, J. L., Breton, C. V., Camargo, C. A., Cassidy-Bushrow, A. E., Colicino, E., Dabelea, D., Dunlop, A. L., Farzan, S. F., Ferrara, A., Gern, J. E., Hertz-Picciotto, I., Karagas, M. R., Karr, C. J., Lester, B., Leve, L. D., Moore, B. F. & Neiderhiser, J. M. & 289 others, Oken, E., O’Shea, T. M., Sanderson, K., Stanford, J. B., Trasande, L., Weiss, S. T., Wright, R. J., Zhao, Q., Zhu, Y., McEvoy, C. T., Spindel, E. R., Smith, P. B., Newby, L. K., Adair, L., Jacobson, L. P., Catellier, D., McGrath, M., Douglas, C., Duggal, P., Knapp, E., Kress, A., Blackwell, C. K., Mansolf, M. A., Lai, J. S., Ho, E., Cella, D., Gershon, R., Macy, M. L., Das, S. R., Freedman, J. E., Mallal, S. A., McLean, J. A., Shah, R. V., Shilts, M. H., Alshawabkeh, A. N., Cordero, J. F., Meeker, J., Trasande, L., Camargo, C. A., Hasegawa, K., Zhu, Z., Sullivan, A. F., Dabelea, D., Perng, W., Bekelman, T. A., Wilkening, G., Magzamen, S., Moore, B. F., Starling, A. P., Rinehart, D. J., Mitchell, D. K., D’Sa, V., Deoni, S. C. L., Mueller, H. G., Duarte, C. S., Monk, C., Canino, G., Posner, J., Murray, T., Lugo-Candelas, C., Dunlop, A. L., Brennan, P. A., Hockett, C., Elliott, A., Ferrara, A., Croen, L. A., Hedderson, M. M., Ainsworth, J., Bacharier, L. B., Bendixsen, C. G., Gern, J. E., Gold, D. R., Hartert, T. V., Jackson, D. J., Johnson, C. C., Joseph, C. L. M., Kattan, M., Hershey, G. K. K., Lemanske, R. F., Lynch, S. V., Miller, R. L., O’Connor, G. T., Ober, C., Ownby, D., Rivera-Spoljaric, K., Ryan, P. H., Seroogy, C. M., Singh, A. M., Wood, R. A., Zoratti, E. M., Habre, R., Farzan, S., Gilliland, F. D., Hertz-Picciotto, I., Bennett, D. H., Schweitzer, J. B., Schmidt, R. J., LaSalle, J. M., Hipwell, A. E., Karr, C. J., Bush, N. R., LeWinn, K. Z., Sathyanarayana, S., Zhao, Q., Tylavsky, F., Carroll, K. N., Loftus, C. T., Leve, L. D., Ganiban, J. M., Neiderhiser, J. M., Weiss, S. T., Litonjua, A. A., McEvoy, C. T., Spindel, E. R., Tepper, R. S., Newschaffer, C. J., Lyall, K., Volk, H. E., Landa, R., Ozonoff, S., Piven, J., Hazlett, H., Pandey, J., Schultz, R., Dager, S., Botteron, K., Messinger, D., Stone, W., Ames, J., O’Connor, T. G., Miller, R. K., Oken, E., Hacker, M. R., James-Todd, T., O’Shea, T. M., Fry, R. C., Frazier, J. A., Singh, R., Rollins, C., Montgomery, A., Vaidya, R., Joseph, R. M., Washburn, L. K., Gogcu, S., Bear, K., Rollins, J. V., Hooper, S. R., Taylor, G., Jackson, W., Thompson, A., Daniels, J., Hernandez, M., Lu, K., Msall, M., Lenski, M., Obeid, R., Pastyrnak, S. L., Jensen, E., Sakai, C., Santos, H., Kerver, J. M., Paneth, N., Barone, C. J., Elliott, M. R., Ruden, D. M., Fussman, C., Herbstman, J. B., Margolis, A., Schantz, S. L., Geiger, S. D., Aguiar, A., Tabb, K., Strakovsky, R., Woodruff, T., Morello-Frosch, R., Padula, A., Stanford, J. B., Porucznik, C. A., Giardino, A. P., Wright, R. J., Wright, R. O., Collett, B., Baumann-Blackmore, N., Gangnon, R., Jackson, D. J., McKennan, C. G., Wilson, J., Altman, M., Aschner, J. L., Stroustrup, A., Merhar, S. L., Moore, P. E., Pryhuber, G. S., Hudak, M., Lyndaker, A. M. R., Lampland, A. L., Rochelson, B., Jan, S., Blitz, M. J., Katzow, M. W., Brown, Z., Chiuzan, C., Rafael, T., Lewis, D., Meirowitz, N., Poindexter, B., Gebretsadik, T., Osmundson, S., Straughen, J. K., Eapen, A., Cassidy-Bushrow, A., Wegienka, G., Sitarik, A., Woodcroft, K., Urquhart, A., Levin, A., Johnson-Hooper, T., Davidson, B., Ma, T., Barrett, E. S., Blaser, M. J., Dominguez-Bello, M. G., Horton, D. B., Jimenez, M., Rosen, T., Palomares, K., Avalos, L. A., Zhu, Y., Hunt, K. J., Newman, R. B., Bloom, M. S., Alkis, M. H., Roberts, J. R., Mumford, S. L., Burris, H. H., DeMauro, S. B., Yee, L. M., Hamvas, A., Olidipo, A. F., Haddad, A. S., Eiland, L. R., Spillane, N. T., Suri, K. N., Fisher, S. A., Goldstein, J. A., Mithal, L. B., DeRegnier, R. A. O., Maitre, N. L., Nguyen, R. H. N., JaKa, M. M., Sidebottom, A. C., Paidas, M. J., Potter, J. N. E., Ruby, N., Duthely, L., Jayakumar, A., Young, K., Maldonado, I., Miller, M., Slaughter, J. L., Keim, S. A., Lynch, C. D., Venkatesh, K. K., Whitworth, K. W., Symanski, E., Northrup, T. F., Mendez-Figueroa, H., Mosquera, R. A., Karagas, M. R., Madan, J. C., MacKenzie, D. M., Lewis, J. L., Rennie, B. J., Leventhal, B. L., Kim, Y. S., Bishop, S., Nozadi, S. S., Luo, L., Lester, B. M., Marsit, C. J., Everson, T., Loncar, C. M., McGowan, E. C., Sheinkopf, S. J., Carter, B. S., Check, J., Helderman, J. B., Neal, C. R. & Smith, L. M., Feb 17 2026, In: Circulation. 153, 7, p. 536-539 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

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  • Impact of Racial Bias on Providers’ Empathic Communication Behaviors with Women of Color in Postpartum Checkup

    Hoang, T. M. H., Ramirez, X. R., Watkins, D. N., Sbrilli, M. D., Lee, B. A., Hsieh, W. J., Wong, A., Worthington, V. K. & Tabb, K. M., Apr 2026, In: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 13, 2, p. 845-853 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Maternal adverse childhood experiences and prenatal stress: Intergenerational transmission and offspring mental health in the ECHO Cohort

    ECHO Cohort Consortium, Mar 11 2026, In: Psychological Medicine. 56, e60.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Perinatal depression screening and diagnosis: Identifying opportunities to improve optimal care

    Ryckman, K., Peters, M., Parker, E., Golzarri-Arroyo, L., Jones, D. S., Adeagbo, M., Hamil, J., Shelton, B., Cho, H., Tabb, K., Tandon, S. D. & Faro, E., Feb 2026, In: Archives of Women's Mental Health. 29, 1, 35.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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