Assistant Professor
School of Public Health, Global Health
Biography
BIRCWH Scholar: 2023
Subasri Narasimhan, PhD, MPH, is a public health social scientist specializing in sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, and intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Southeastern US. She completed her PhD in Community Health Sciences at the University of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health where she was a Bixby Doctoral Fellow, Child and Family Health Trainee, and a Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Pre-Doctoral Trainee. She came to Emory as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE) where her work centered on employing mixed and multi-level methodology to study the impact of policy restrictions on abortion provision and contraceptive use on the health and wellbeing of people capable of pregnancy.
Currently, she is a Co-Principal Investigator on several studies focusing on reproductive health, birth care and support, and abortion, including the Abortion Bans Project, which studies state-level legislative debate on six-week abortion bans, for which she received the 2019 Society of Family Planning Emerging Scholar Award, PROVIDA, which examines provision of medication abortion implementation via telehealth, and a pilot study of focused on impact of COVID-19 on experiences of prenatal care, birth support, and delivery for first time parents.
She is mentored by Dr. Jessica Sales.