Kara M. Morgan

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University

Established · publishing since 1998

Food Safety and Hygiene Risk and Safety Analysis Risk Perception and Management Child Nutrition and Water Access Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology

Publications

Citations

522

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 1998

Research summary

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Kara M. Morgan works on food safety, risk analysis, and decision-making related to public health, including how people weigh the risks and benefits of eating fish that contains methylmercury alongside nutrients important for children's brain development. Her work also touches on frameworks for assessing risks and benefits of new scientific and technological advances.

Food safety and risk analysisRisk-benefit tradeoffs in nutritionDecision-making frameworks for emerging risksFish consumption and child developmentPublic health risk communication

Publication output has been low but slightly increasing over the last decade, rising from no publications in 2017-2018 to about one to two per year since 2019.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.4/year recently

Recent publications

Fish consumption advice is depriving children of neurolipids and other nutrients essential to brain and eye development
NeuroToxicology · 2025
The DNP Essentials in Clinical Practice: A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner's Experience in Medical Genetics and Metabolism
2024
Net effects explains the benefits to children from maternal fish consumption despite methylmercury in fish
NeuroToxicology · 2023
Decision‐first modeling should guide decision making for emerging risks
Risk Analysis · 2022
Assessing the Risks and Benefits of Advances in Science and Technology: Exploring the Potential of Qualitative Frameworks
Health Security · 2020
Kara Morgan
Authors group · 2019

Publishes in

NeuroToxicology×2
Risk Analysis×2
Journal of Food Protection×2
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems×1
Health Security×1

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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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