Kristin K. Palmsten, ScD
Senior Research Investigator

"My work helps pregnant people make decisions about medicines and vaccines."

About

Kristin Palmsten, ScD, is a Senior Research Investigator, Co-Director of the Pregnancy and Child Health Research Center, and Research and Scientific Mentor at HealthPartners Institute. Dr. Palmsten is a perinatal epidemiologist and pharmacoepidemiologist. She received her doctorate in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego. She received an Abraham Lilienfeld Student Prize from the Society for Epidemiologic Research and an Early Career Professional Achievement Award from The National Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Awards.

Dr. Palmsten’s research has primarily focused on using big data to study perinatal health, including drug safety during pregnancy, and epidemiologic methods to reduce bias in studies of exposures during pregnancy. Currently, she is the principal investigator of two multi-site studies funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shrive

Affiliation

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  • Sr. Research Investigator, Pregnancy and child health 2017 -
  • Research Investigator, Pregnancy and child health 2017 - 2021
  • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • Ambulatory care utilization in the first 24 months' postpartum by rurality and pregnancy-related conditions: A prospective cohort study from Maine
    Journal of Rural Health. 2025
  • Prevalence of GLP-1 medication exposure prior to, during, and after pregnancy using state-wide data from 2017 to 2023
    American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM. 2025
  • Acute health care utilization in the first 24 months postpartum by rurality and pregnancy complications: a prospective cohort study
    Health Services Research. 2024
  • Association between gestational diabetes and cardiovascular disease within 24 months postpartum
    American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM. 2024
  • Characterisation and validation of lactation information from structured electronic health records for use in pharmacoepidemiological studies
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2024
  • Editorial Article
  • The data giveth, but what do we take away [editorial]?
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.  37. 2023
  • Making the best use of data not created for research [editorial]
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.  32. 2018
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