Celia

Karp

, PhD

Dr. Celia Karp's is a social and behavioral scientist whose work encompasses two overarching areas: psychosocial determinants of reproductive health, including pregnancy preferences, reproductive empowerment, and decision-making related to childbearing, contraception and abortion, and systems shaping women's health and well-being, including access to high-quality reproductive health services. She is dedicated to research, teaching, and mentorship in the field of women’s sexual and reproductive health across the lifecourse. 

Dr. Karp’s research focuses on the intersection of women’s reproductive health preferences, services, and outcomes in low-resource settings. Through her work, Dr. Karp aims to enhance understanding, measurement, and mitigation of factors contributing to adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes and inequities.

As a co-investigator with Performance Monitoring and Accountability (PMA), PMA-Ethiopia, and the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) Dr. Karp leads research on reproductive empowerment, quality of care, and availability and use of reproductive health services. A large part of her role on these projects includes capacity strengthening efforts, mentoring students and junior faculty at Johns Hopkins and collaborating institutions to hone critical research skills. Her mentoring focuses on enhancing data use and dissemination to help close the data-to-policy gap and improve health systems and services—and ultimately the health of populations. 

Dr. Karp received her PhD from the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a concentration in epidemiology and maternal and reproductive health.