Dr. Mira Grice Sheff has served as the State Maternal and Child Health Epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health since August 2015. She is the Principal Investigator for the Minnesota Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (MN PRAMS), a collaborative effort between MDH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at understanding the factors that contribute to healthy pregnancies and infant outcomes. She also leads Minnesota’s work under the CDC’s ERASE MM program, which provides federal support for the state’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee.

Before joining MDH, Dr. Sheff was an assistant professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, where she conducted research and taught graduate-level courses on women’s health and injury and violence prevention. She holds both a Master’s degree and a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health.