Laura Maria Grajeda

Master of Science (MS) in Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Laura is a Biochemist and Microbiologist from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. She has a master’s in International Health from Johns Hopkins University and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UGA. Her research experience includes surveillance of respiratory, febrile, and zoonotic infectious diseases in Guatemala and the assessment of the effects of household air pollution on child health.

Education

Selected Publications

• Grajeda LM, Diaz-Artiga A, Lopez MR, Castellanos K, Petrovick T, Barraza-Villareal A, Thompson LM, Jabbarzade S, Wang J, Waller L, Clark M, Lovvorn AE, Eckhardt C, Hoekstra NE, Johnson M, Pillarisetti A, Prada D, Baccarelli A, Shen Y, Knight J, Naeher L, Clasen T, Peel J, McCollum E, McCracken JP. Early life liquefied petroleum gas intervention and pulmonary function in Guatemalan children from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network trial. 36th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. 2024. Santiago, Chile. Oral presentation.
• McCollum ED, McCracken JP, Kirby MA, Grajeda LM, Hossen S, Moulton LH, Simkovich SM, Goodman-Palmer D, Rosa G, Mukeshimana A, Balakrishnan K, Thangavel G, Garg SS, Castañaza A, Thompson LM, Diaz-Artiga A, Papageorghiou AT, Davila-Roman VG, Underhill LJ, Hartinger SM, Williams KN, Nicolaou L, Chang HH, Lovvorn AE, Rosenthal JP, Pillarisetti A, Ye W, Naeher LP, Johnson MA, Waller LA, Jabbarzadeh S, Wang J, Chen Y, Steenland K, Clasen TF, Peel JL, Checkley W; HAPIN Investigators. Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass Cooking and Severe Infant Pneumonia. N Engl J Med. 2024 Jan 4;390(1):32-43. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2305681. PMID: 38169488; PMCID: PMC10768798.
• Grajeda LM, McCracken JP, Berger-González M, López MR, Álvarez D, Méndez S, Pérez O, Cordón-Rosales C, Zinsstag J. Sensitivity and representativeness of one-health surveillance for diseases of zoonotic potential at health facilities relative to household visits in rural Guatemala. One Health. 2021 Oct 12;13:100336. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100336. PMID: 34703874; PMCID: PMC8524745.
• Grajeda LM, Thompson LM, Arriaga W, Canuz E, Omer SB, Sage M, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Bryan JP, McCracken JP. Effectiveness of Gas and Chimney Biomass Stoves for Reducing Household Air Pollution Pregnancy Exposure in Guatemala: Sociodemographic Effect Modifiers. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Oct 22;17(21):E7723. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17217723. PMID: 33105825.