Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Research Interests
Gender-based violence; women’s health; migration; mixed-methods research; policy evaluation; community-based research
Experiences & Accomplishments
Kristin Bevilacqua is an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has extensive practice, teaching, and research experience related to gender-based violence and women’s sexual and reproductive health in the US and Latin America. Her research lies at the intersection of gender-based violence, women’s health, and migration. Kristin draws on her training in mixed-methods research and statistical methods for estimating causal effects in non-experimental studies to understand the influence of migration on women’s risk of violence and to prevent and respond to gender-based violence among migrants in the US and globally. She also works on several projects focusing on the impacts of housing supports for survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual violence prevention and response on college campuses.
Select Publications
Carvajal D, Bevilacqua KG, Caldwell M, Zambrana RE. Provider perspectives on contraceptive counseling for Latina/x patients in the age of Patient-Centered Care. Contraception. 2022 Dec 16: 109921.
Bevilacqua KG, Arciniegas S, Page K, Steinberg AK, Stellmann J, Flores-Miller A, Wirtz AL. Contexts of violence victimization and service-seeking among Latino/a/x immigrant adults in Maryland and the District of Columbia: A qualitative study. Journal of Migration and Health. 2022 Dec 5:100142.
Bevilacqua KG, Williams A,Wood SN, Ngare GW, Thiongo M, Gichangi P, Decker MR. Experiences of sexual harassment before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among adolescent girls and young women (AGWY) in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. Oct 17;12(10):e066777. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066777.
Decker MR, Bevilacqua KG, Wood SN, Ngare GW, Thiongo M, Byrne ME, Williams A, Devoto B, Glass N, Heise L, Gichangi P. Gender-based violence during COVID-19 among adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya: a mixed-methods prospective study of 18 months. BMJ Global Health. 2022;7:e007807
Decker MR, Grace KT, Holliday CN, Bevilacqua KG, Kaur A, Miller J. Safe and stable housing for intimate partner violence survivors enables dual goals of safety and housing stability: a mixed-methods, quasi-experimental evaluation. Am J of Public Health. Apr 13(0):e1-6.
Bevilacqua KG, Gottschlich A, Murchland A, Alvarez C, Rivera-Andrade A, Meza R. Cervical cancer knowledge and barriers and facilitators to screening among women in two rural communities in Guatemala: A qualitative study. BMC Women’s Health. 2022 Dec;22(1):1-20.