Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH

Research Associate, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)

Email: upadhyayu@obgyn.ucsf.edu

Biosketch:

Ushma Upadhyay is a Research Specialist at ANSIRH, doing an analysis of evidence-based counseling models for abortion. Dr. Upadhyay joined ANSIRH from the New York City Department of Health, where she conducted epidemiological research using complex survey data on the health of New Yorkers. Previously she was at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as Associate Editor for Population Reports, an international journal for health care providers. She is co-author of Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers, a Johns Hopkins/WHO publication providing evidence-based guidance on the provision of contraceptive methods in low resource settings. Her previous research examined the determinants of age at first sex among a cohort of over 2,000 adolescents in Cebu, the Philippines, followed since they were born in 1980. Dr. Upadhyay has a BA in Communications and International Studies from American University, an MPH from Columbia University School of Public Health, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Areas of Interest:

• Unintended Pregnancy
• Sexual Relationship Power
• Barriers to access of contraception and abortion

Publications on PubMed


Updated January 2009