Population Studies and Training Center

Dea is a first-year PhD student in Health Services Research in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on maternal and reproductive health, particularly the social, structural, and economic factors that shape access to quality care. She uses impact evaluation and causal inference methods to study how policies and programs affect outcomes for mothers and their families. Before coming to Brown, Dea worked as a research assistant at Harvard, studying the effects of a Medicaid-funded home visiting program in South Carolina on maternal and child health. She also worked at the World Bank on a data pipeline that used facility-level data from Sub-Saharan Africa to track maternal and child health and service use. She holds a BA in Science, Technology and Society from Vassar College and an SM in Global Health and Population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.