Rosemary

Morgan

, PhD, MSc

Rosemary Morgan is a Research Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of International Health. Dr. Morgan is a health systems researcher, specializing in women's health and wellbeing, women's leadership, and access to and utilization of services.

Dr. Morgan is the Primary Investigator on the Monitoring for Action and Learning (MAGE) project, which seeks to support M&E within the Global Financing Facility (GFF) reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health initiatives. She is a co-PI on a project exploring the impact of women leaders in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. Additional projects include: a qualitative study of patient experiences of Long COVID, and a qualitative study exploring COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among pregnant individuals. She also works as a Gender Consultant for the Global Center for Gender Equality.

Dr. Morgan is a current board member of Health Systems Global and is co-Editor in Chief of the journal SSM - Health Systems.

Previously, she was a co-primary investigator on a project exploring the gendered effects of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, DRC, and Brazil supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-primary investigator for the project Risk and Resilience in the Health Workforce: Understanding and Supporting the Experiences of Women Health Workers during COVID-19, supported by the BC Women’s Health Foundation; Advisor on a CIHR funded project exploring the gendered effects of COVID-19 in Canada, the UK, China, and Hong Kong; Gender Advisor for Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Surveys during COVID-19, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) advisor for the UK Partnerships for Health Systems programme (UKPHS); GESI advisor for Learning, Acting and Building for Rehabilitation in Health Systems Consortium (ReLAB-HS), supported by USAID; Advisor on TDR funded projects exploring the intersectional gendered effects of infectious diseases of poverty in Nepal and Uganda. She previously led “Research in Gender and Ethics (RinGs): Building Stronger Health Systems”, a project which brought together four research networks encompassing 17 institutions across 25 countries in a partnership to galvanize gender and ethics analysis in health systems research.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins Rosemary was a Lecturer in Global Health Policy for the Global Public Health Unit (GPHU) at the University of Edinburgh, and a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Leeds, where she worked on two international health projects: HESVIC - Health System Stewardship and Regulation in Vietnam, India and China, and CHEPSAA – Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa.

She holds a PhD in International Health and Development from the University of Leeds, where she explored HIV/AIDS prevention policy processes within faith-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Tanzania.

Teaching
Rosemary currently teaches a course on Gender Analysis in Health Research and Interventions at JHSPH and co-teaches a course on Foundations in Gender and Health. She also co-instructs the course Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. She leads the Gender and Health Certificate and JHSPH and is co-Director of the Gender and Health Summer Institute.

While at the University of Edinburgh, Rosemary was the Program Director for MSc Global Health and Public Policy and the course convener for Population Health and Health Policy, and Human Rights and Health at GPHU. She has experience teaching on a number of different global health courses, including health systems and sexual and reproductive health.