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Yu Bai

Statistician III
Center for Child and Family Policy
Box 90539, Durham, NC 27708
213 Sanford Building, Box 90539, Durham, NC 27708

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Recent Publications


Intracranial hemorrhage and additional anomalies detected on prenatal magnetic resonance imaging: A large, retrospective study in two tertiary medical institutions.

Journal Article Heliyon · December 2024 ObjectivesTo clarify the prenatal magnetic resonance (MR) imaging characteristics of fetal intracranial haemorrhages (ICHs) in a large cohort and correlate them with birth outcomes.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed MR images of fetuses w ... Full text Cite

Birth Spacing and Child Maltreatment: Population-Level Estimates for North Carolina.

Journal Article Child maltreatment · November 2024 We examine population-level associations between birth spacing and child maltreatment using birth records and child welfare records for 1,099,230 second or higher parity children born in North Carolina between 1997 and 2013. Building upon previous research ... Full text Open Access Cite

Unique Profiles of Postpartum Family Needs and Evidence of Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Insights from Community Implementation of Family Connects.

Journal Article Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · April 2024 ObjectivesTo delineate specific family needs during the postpartum period using data from Family Connects (FC), a universal home-visiting initiative, and to scrutinize potential racial and ethnic disparities in these needs.MethodFC implem ... Full text Open Access Cite
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Recent Grants


Factors in Persistence Versus Fadeout of Early Childhood Intervention Impacts

ResearchStatistician · Awarded by University of California - Irvine · 2024 - 2029

Community Prevention of Child Maltreatment

ResearchStatistician · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2026

The Duke Endowment-FCI

Public ServiceStatistician · Awarded by Duke Endowment · 2021 - 2024

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