Erin Dunn
- Professor of Sociology
Office and Contact
Email: erindunn@purdue.edu
Education
ScD Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2011
ScD Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2011
Research Interests
genetics, epigenetics, childhood adversity, and statistical approaches to analyze lifecourse data
genetics, epigenetics, childhood adversity, and statistical approaches to analyze lifecourse data
Selected Grants
2025 - National Institute of Mental Health - (co-I)
2025 - Anonymous Foundation - (co-I)
2024 - One Child Every Child Strategic Catalyst Award - (co-I)
2023 - National Institute of Mental Health (2) - (PI; MPI)
2023 - National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - (MPI)
2023 - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research - (PI)
2022 - National Institute of Mental Health (2) - (PI)
2022 - New Frontiers in Research Fund - (co-I)
2025 - Anonymous Foundation - (co-I)
2024 - One Child Every Child Strategic Catalyst Award - (co-I)
2023 - National Institute of Mental Health (2) - (PI; MPI)
2023 - National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - (MPI)
2023 - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research - (PI)
2022 - National Institute of Mental Health (2) - (PI)
2022 - New Frontiers in Research Fund - (co-I)
Selected Publications
Choi K.R., Dunn E.C., Comulada W.S., Saadi A. (in press). Latent class analysis of household and community adversity among pre-adolescent youth in the United States. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.
Eldeeb SY, McKenna BG, Lake MT, Hoffman N, Lussier AA, Walton E, Simpkin AJ, Smith ADAC, Zar HJ, Stein DJ, Dunn EC. Type and developmental timing of childhood adversity predicts psychopathology symptoms in a South African birth cohort. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Jul 14:2025.06.18.25329880. doi: 10.1101/2025.06.18.25329880.
Erin C. Dunn, Theresa W. Cheng, Yiwen Zhu, Alexandre Lussier, Katherine N. Thompson, Andrew D.A.C. Smith, Henning Tiemeier, Ezra S. Susser, Accumulation and sensitive period effects for childhood abuse and financial hardship on depressive symptoms in late adolescence, Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 2026; 100171
Dunn EC. Closing the Adverse Childhood Experiences Research-to-Practice Gap—A Call for Action. JAMA Netw Open. 2026;9(3):e260216. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.0216
Padget, M., Sorme, P., Spezia, M., Slaugenhaupt, S.A., McKowen, J., Kirchner, E., Ameral, N., Surya, A. R., Slater, D., Haggarty, S.J., Kleinstiver, B.P., Dunn, E.C., Laracque, R., Alves, C.R.R., Stern, M., Pelli, Al, Duhaime, A. Environmental impact, cost, and acceptability of a laboratory sustainability certification program for biomedical research in an academic medical center. Journal of Climate Change and Health. 2025; 23:100401
Shen, X., Barbu, M., Caramaschi, D., Arathimos, R., Czamara, D., David, F.S., Dearman, A., Dilkes, E., Herrera-Rivero, M., Huider, F., Kühn, L, Lu, K.C., Palviainen, T., Schowe, A.M., Shireby, G., Weihs, A., Wong, C.Y. C., Davyson, E., Casey, H., Adams, M., Allgaier, A.K., Barber, M., Burrage, J., Caspi, A., Costeira, R., Dunn, E.C., Feldmann, L., Frank, J., Freisleder, F.J., Gadd, D.A., Greimel, E., Hannon, E., Harris, S.E., Homuth, G., Howard, D.M, Iurato, S., Korhonen, T., Lu, T.P., Martin, N.G., Martins, J., McDermott, E., Meinert, S., Navarro, P., Ollikainen, M., Pehl, V., Piechaczek, C., Scherff, A.D., Stein, F., Streit, F., Teumer, A., Völzke, H., VanDongen, J., Walker, R.M., Yusupov, N., Arseneault, L., Bell, J.T., Berger, K., Binder, E., BeCOME Working Group, OPTIMA Working Group, Boomsma. D.I., Cox, S.R., Dannlowski, U., Evans, K.L., Fisher, H.L., Forstner, A.J., Grabe, H.J., Kaprio, J., Kircher, T., Kopf-Beck, J., Kumari, M., Kuo, P.H., Li, Q.S., Moffitt, T.E., Mulcahy, H., Murphy. T.M., Schulte-Körne, G., Mill, J., Lewis, C.M., PGC MDD Working Group, Wray, N.R., McIntosh, A.M. A methylome-wide association study of major depression with out-of-sample case-control classification and trans-ancestry comparison. Nature Mental Health, 2025; 3:1152–1167
Shen, X., Barbu, M., Caramaschi, D., Arathimos, R., Czamara, D., David, F.S., Dearman, A., Dilkes, E., Herrera-Rivero, M., Huider, F., Kühn, L, Lu, K.C., Palviainen, T., Schowe, A.M., Shireby, G., Weihs, A., Wong, C.Y. C., Davyson, E., Casey, H., Adams, M., Allgaier, A.K., Barber, M., Burrage, J., Caspi, A., Costeira, R., Dunn, E.C., Feldmann, L., Frank, J., Freisleder, F.J., Gadd, D.A., Greimel, E., Hannon, E., Harris, S.E., Homuth, G., Howard, D.M, Iurato, S., Korhonen, T., Lu, T.P., Martin, N.G., Martins, J., McDermott, E., Meinert, S., Navarro, P., Ollikainen, M., Pehl, V., Piechaczek, C., Scherff, A.D., Stein, F., Streit, F., Teumer, A., Völzke, H., VanDongen, J., Walker, R.M., Yusupov, N., Arseneault, L., Bell, J.T., Berger, K., Binder, E., BeCOME Working Group, OPTIMA Working Group, Boomsma. D.I., Cox, S.R., Dannlowski, U., Evans, K.L., Fisher, H.L., Forstner, A.J., Grabe, H.J., Kaprio, J., Kircher, T., Kopf-Beck, J., Kumari, M., Kuo, P.H., Li, Q.S., Moffitt, T.E., Mulcahy, H., Murphy. T.M., Schulte-Körne, G., Mill, J., Lewis, C.M., PGC MDD Working Group, Wray, N.R., McIntosh, A.M. A methylome-wide association study of major depression with out-of-sample case-control classification and trans-ancestry comparison. Nature Mental Health, 2025; 3:1152–1167
Tamman, A. J. F., Nagamatsu, S. T., Cabrera-Mendoza, B., Averill, L. A., Dunn, E. C., Krystal, J. H., Gelernter, J., Montalvo-Ortiz, J. L., Polimanti, R., & Pietrzak, R. H. Developmental timing of index trauma exposure and accelerated epigenetic aging in United States military Veterans.Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2025; 182:107568
Bigler, M.E., Schuurmans, I.K., Zhu, Y., Siddique, N., Hoffman, N., Koen, N., Zar, H.J., Stein, D.J.,Cecil, C.A.M., Dunn, E.C. (in press). Are different types of childhood adversities correlated within and across time? A comparison of data on adversity co-occurrence from three longitudinal birth cohort studies. Child Abuse & Neglect. 2025 Oct; 168(Pt 1):107315
McKenna, B.G., Lussier, A.A., Suderman, M.J., Walton, E., Simpkin, A.J., Hüls, A, Dunn, E.C. (2025). Strengthening Rigor and Reproducibility in Epigenome-Wide Association Studies of Social Exposures and Brain-Based Health Outcomes. Current Environmental Health Reports. 12 (1), 19.Lemmers, S., LeLuyer, M., Stoll, S., Hoffnagle, A.G., Ferrell, R.J., Gamble, J.A., Guatelli-Steinberg, D., Gurian, K.N., McGrath, K., O’Hara, M.C., Smith, A.D.A.C., Dunn, E.C. Inter-rater reliability of stress signatures in exfoliated primary dentition-Improving scientific rigor and reproducibility in histological data collection. PLoS One.