Dr Alison Gemmill

Dr Alison Gemmill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received her PhD in Demography from UC Berkeley in 2017 and her MPH in Maternal and Child Health from UC Berkeley in 2011. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a research assistant for the Guttmacher Institute in New York. She is a demographer with expertise in maternal, perinatal, and reproductive health and fertility. Her recent research studies how women’s risk preferences and perceptions impact reproductive health behaviors and outcomes, the relationship between population shocks and perinatal health, trends in and risk factors of pregnancy-associated mortality and morbidity due to drug use, suicide, and homicide in the US, and global and regional patterns of maternal health indicators. She is a former NICHD and NIA predoctoral fellow in demography and has published lead-authored and collaborative work in journals such as Demography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lancet, Lancet Global Health, Population and Development Review, and JAMA Network Open.