
Dr. Diamond-Smith is a public health demographer with expertise in maternal and child health in the developing world, with a focus on gender inequality/women's empowerment, family planning and abortion and nutrition in the preconception and pregnancy period. Her research has been focused in low and middle-income countries, primarily South Asia, and she explores discrimination against women across their life course and the impact on women and children’s health. This funding will allow her to extend this research to the US and give her the opportunity to explore issues and analyze data of social inequality and birth outcomes on mothers in California. Specifically, she will look at disparities in birth outcomes by race, poverty, and low body mass index (BMI), and the interplay of these factors.
Dr. Diamond-Smith received a BA degree with honors in Biology, an MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD in Population, Family, and Reproductive Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.