Dana

Sarnak

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PhD

I have a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. My education and experience reflect my commitment and passion to sexual and reproductive health and demography, particularly their intersection around fertility. Broadly, I’m interested in what conditions and policies support women achieving their child- bearing and spacing goals. Specifically, I have been studying how fertility preferences and contraception intentions influence contraceptive use dynamics in countries experiencing fertility transitions. My research portfolio includes work on: fertility preferences and contraceptive use dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa, covert use of contraception in sub-Saharan Africa, and couples and reproductive health. In addition, I have experience in survey research design and implementation, both in my work with PMA and The Commonwealth Fund. I have participated in all stages of survey work, including survey design, survey implementation (in-country trainings for interviewers, creating training videos for local teams), data quality and monitoring in the field, analysis of data to produce manuscripts, and leading seminars for researchers on how to analyze data.