Emily Harville is an associate professor of epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. Her research interests focus on social and biological causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes, particularly the effects of stress on pregnancy and pregnancy within the life course, including preconception and transgenerational effects. As she moved to New Orleans the week before Hurricane Katrina, she has also developed a subspecialty in the effects of disaster on pregnant and postpartum women. Harville's teaching interests include epidemiologic methods, epidemiology of health disparities, and data analysis. She is currently the principal investigator on an implementation study of an intervention to improve mental health after a disaster and is involved with efforts to harmonize preconception and multigenerational data across multiple research cohorts. Harville received her PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2005.