Sarah Boudova, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Director of the Perinatal Global Health Program
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine
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Dr. Sarah Boudova, MD, PhD is a board-certified Ob/gyn, Assistant Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Director of Perinatal Global Health at UIC. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Boudova’s work has focused on global health, pregnancy, sickle cell disease vaccines and infectious diseases. She has over a decade of experience collaborating with international colleagues in clinical and research settings including sites in Botswana, Cameroon, Malawi, Ethiopia, Uganda, American Samoa, Kenya and Ghana. During her PhD at the University of Maryland School of Medicine she was awarded an F30 grant from NIAID for her work in Malawi researching the impact of malaria during pregnancy on the development of the fetal immune system and the risk of malaria in infancy. As an Ob/gyn resident at Indiana University she completed a certificate in global health and conducted clinical work in American Samoa and Kenya. As a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at Thomas Jefferson University, Dr. Boudova received a Merck Investigator Studies Program Grant for her work on patient and provider attitudes surround HPV vaccination in pregnancy, a Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award for her research on the relationship between iron-deficiency anemia and malaria during pregnancy, and a Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Queenan Global Health Fellowship where she worked at the WHO and helped to develop the guidelines for managing sickle cell disease during pregnancy. Dr. Boudova is actively involved with the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Global Health Committee and Infectious Diseases and Emerging Threats Committee. Currently Dr. Boudova is working on projects to understand the overlapping pathophysiology of placental malaria, pre-eclampsia and sickle cell disease during pregnancy, and develop clinical and public health interventions that can improve the health of women and children globally.
Education
Fellowship, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Residency, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Medical Doctor
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
PhD Molecular Medicine and Immunology
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Selected Presentations
1. Boudova S, Divala TH, Mungwira R, Mawindo P, Tomoka T, Laufer MK. The Relationship between Placental Malaria and Preeclampsia in Blantyre, Malawi. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2025 Jul 17:tpmd250187. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.25-0187
2. Boudova S, Mark K, El-Kamary SS. Risk-based hepatitis C screening in pregnancy is less reliable than universal screening: A retrospective chart review. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Feb 17;5(3):ofy043. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy043. eCollection 2018 Mar.
3. Boudová, S., Divala, T., Mungwira, R., Mawindo, P., Tomoka, T., and Laufer, M.K.: Placental but not peripheral malaria infection during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of malaria in infancy. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2017 Sep 15;216(6):732-735
4. Boudová S, Cohee LM, Kalilani-Phiri L, Thesing PC, Kamiza S, Muehlenbachs A, Taylor TE, Laufer MK. Pregnant women are a reservoir of malaria transmission in Blantyre, Malawi. Malar J. 2014 Dec 17;13(1):506. Doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-506.
5. Boudová, S., Divala, T., Mawindo, P., Cohee, L.M., Kalilani-Phiri, L., Thesing, P.C., Taylor, T.E., and Laufer MK.: The prevalence of malaria at first antenatal visit in Blantyre, Malawi declined following a universal bed net campaign. Malar J. 2015 Oct 29;14(1):422.
For full list of publications: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=sarah+boudova