Gender In(Equality) and Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in LMIC: Insight into Impacts and Interventions
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Faculty Candidate Seminar - Women's, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Neetu John, PhD ’13, MS, MA
Assistant Professor
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Dr. Neetu John (she/her) specializes in Population and Reproductive Health and has worked for over a decade in Africa and Asia. She applies an interdisciplinary lens to understand the pathways by which gender and other structural inequalities impact health outcomes of women and their families, and designs and tests strategies to prevent harm and build resilience. Her work explores the inter-linkages between issues such as women's empowerment, early marriage, gender-based violence, household dynamics, care work, spousal relationships, and sexual and reproductive health in low and middle-income countries. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Previously, she served as a Senior Population, Health, and Gender Specialist at the International Center for Research on Women; and as a Post-doctoral Research Scholar at the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health and the Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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