MAC Associate Director, Dr. Maeve Wallace, received the Rising Star Award at Tulane University’s inaugural Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Awards ceremony on Thursday, November 4, 2021. “This award honors the work of assistant professors, within five years of appointment at Tulane, who demonstrate exceptional growth and impact in research areas.”

The ceremony honored outstanding Tulane scholars and their exceptional research. The event was held at the Higgins Hotel in downtown New Orleans with Meg Farris, WWL-TV reporter, as the emcee. 

President Michael Fitts spoke of the university’s record year of achievement in research noting, “Over the last five years, our federal funding has gone up close to 50 percent.” He expressed that Tulane researchers’ “extraordinary work makes a difference to the lives of the world.”

Dr. Wallace is an assistant professor whose work is based at MAC. Her research interests are the social, structural, and policy determinants of maternal and child health and health inequities. She was recently featured in Nature discussing gun violence and maternal health.

She received her Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology and her Ph.D. in Reproductive Epidemiology from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Population Health Research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Washington, DC.