Shruthi Mahalingaiah, MD

Assistant Professor | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
March of Dimes
Sruthi Mahalingaiah

Shruthi Mahalingaiah, Email: [email protected]

Biography

Dr. Shruthi Mahalingaiah is an assistant professor of environmental, reproductive, and women’s health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She serves clinically as a physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she specializes in ovulation disorders, reproductive endocrinology, and infertility. Her research seeks to understand the links between environmental and modifiable risk factors on human reproduction and gynecological diseases. Shruthi is the creator of the Ovulation and Menstruation Health (OM) Study, one of the principal investigators of the Apple Women’s Health Study, and the principal investigator for Climate Factors, Racial/Ethnic Disparities, and Menstrual Cycle Health Study, which is an R01 funded grant from the NIH.

Education

BS Chemistry and Spanish, Middlebury College (1998)

MD Harvard Medical School, Medicine (2004)

MS Boston University, School of Public Health , Epidemiology, Reproductive Epidemiology (2015)

Honors and recognition

Program Chair for the 2023 Reproductive Scientist Development Program Retreat (2023)

Phase 1 HHS Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Innovator Award (2023)

Top Doctors - Castle Connolly Regional, Boston Magazine (2020-2023)

Exceptional Women in Medicine - Castle Connolly Top Doctors (2019-2023)

President of the New England Fertility Society (2021)

RSDP Seed grant (2017-18)

Endocrine Society Early Investigator award (2016)

Ellison Family Foundation award (2016)

Selected publications

  1. Chan M, Preston EV, Fruh V, Quinn MR, Hacker MR, Wylie BJ, O'Brien K, Williams PL, Hauser R, James-Todd T, Mahalingaiah S. Use of personal care products during pregnancy and birth outcomes - A pilot study. Environ Res. 2023 May 15;225:115583. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.115583. Epub 2023 Mar 1. PMID: 36868449.
  2. Fruh V, Preston EV, Quinn MR, et al. Urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and personal care product use during pregnancy - Results of a pilot study. Sci Total Environ. 2022;835:155439. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155439
  3. Preston EV, Fruh V, Quinn MR, et al. Endocrine disrupting chemical-associated hair product use during pregnancy and gestational age at delivery: a pilot study. Environ Health. 2021;20(1):86. Published 2021 Jul 28. doi:10.1186/s12940-021-00772-5
  4. Li H, Hart JE, Mahalingaiah S, Nethery RC, James P, Bertone-Johnson E, Eliassen AH, Laden F. Environmental Exposures and Anti-Müllerian Hormone: A Mixture Analysis in the Nurses' Health Study II. Epidemiology. 2023 Jan 1;34(1):150-161. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001547. Epub 2022 Sep 22. PMID: 36455251; PMCID: PMC9720700.
  5. Silva EL, Walker DI, Coates Fuentes Z, Pinto-Pacheco B, Metz CN, Gregersen PK, Mahalingaiah S. Untargeted metabolomics reveals that multiple reproductive toxicants are present at the endometrium. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Oct 15;843:157005. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157005. Epub 2022 Jun 27. PMID: 35772554.
  6. James-Todd T, Connolly L, Preston EV, et al. Hormonal activity in commonly used Black hair care products: evaluating hormone disruption as a plausible contribution to health disparities. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2021;31(3):476-486. doi:10.1038/s41370-021-00335-3
  7. Gaskins AJ, Hart JE, Chavarro JE, Missmer SA, Rich-Edwards JW, Laden F, Mahalingaiah S. Air pollution exposure and risk of spontaneous abortion in the Nurses' Health Study II. Hum Reprod. 2019 Aug 06. PMID: 31385588
  8. Li H, Gibson EA, Jukic AMZ, Baird DD, Curry CL, Fischer-Colbrie T, Onnela JP, Williams MA, Hauser R, Coull BA, Mahalingaiah S. Menstrual cycle length variation by demographic characteristics from the Apple Women’s Health Study. NPJ Digit Med.
  9. Gibson EA, Li H, Fruh V, Gabra M, Asokan G, Jukic AMZ, Baird DD, Curry CL, Fischer-Colbrie T, Onnela JP, Williams MA, Hauser R, Coull BA, Mahalingaiah S. Covid-19 vaccination and menstrual cycle length in the Apple Women's Health Study. NPJ Digit Med. 2022 Nov 2;5(1):165. doi: 10.1038/s41746-022-00711-9. PMID: 36323769; PMCID: PMC9628464.
  10. Fruh V, Lyons G, Scalise AL, Gallagher NJ, Jukic AM, Baird DD, Chaturvedi U, Suharwardy S, Onnela JP, Williams MA, Hauser R, Coull BA, Mahalingaiah S. Attempts to conceive and the COVID-19 pandemic: data from the Apple Women's Health Study. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Sep;227(3):484.e1-484.e17. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.05.013. Epub 2022 May 11. PMID: 35568191; PMCID: PMC9093060.

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