Davida Becker, PhD, MS

Ellertson Fellow

Email: becker@obgyn.ucsf.edu

Biosketch:

Davida Becker received a PhD in public health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a MS from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.  Her research interests relate to the accessibility and quality of reproductive health services.  For her dissertation, she studied US women’s perceptions of the quality of family planning care and explored racial, ethnic, and language group differences in clients’ service experiences, using both quantitative and qualitative research methods.  She also has reproductive health research experience in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, where she spent two years working as a Regional Project Coordinator at the Population Council’s Mexico City office, on topics such as emergency contraception, abortion public opinion, and sexually transmitted infections.  During her fellowship, Dr. Becker would like to continue to study the quality and accessibility of reproductive health services, expanding her focus to include abortion services.  She is interested in learning more about clients’ abortion service experiences and their expectations surrounding care, and how these may vary by factors such as race/ethnicity, immigration status, generational status, and socio-economic status.

Areas of Interest:

• Accessibility and quality of reproductive health care
• Client perceptions of reproductive services
• Disparities in health and health care
• Acculturation/immigrant health

Publications on PubMed


Updated January 2009