CAROL J. ROWLAND HOGUE

Carol J. Rowland Hogue, Ph.D., M.P.H. was appointed Professor of Epidemiology and Jules & Deen Terry Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University in 1992. For a decade before that, she was at the federal Centers for Disease Control, Division of Reproductive Health, where she was chief of the Pregnancy Epidemiology Branch (originally the Abortion Surveillance Branch) and then Director of the Division. Prior to her government service, she was on the Biometry faculty of Arkansas medical school (1977-82) and the Biostatistics faculty of UNC-CH School of Public Health (1974-77). Her research interests include the long-term effects of induced abortion, epidemiology of preterm delivery – especially among African American women, and minority health. She is lead editor of the book, Minority Health in America (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2000). She and her husband, L. Lynn Hogue, have one daughter, Elizabeth.