My latest CV is available here.
I'm a sociologist and demographer, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Population Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
My research explores how social inequalities shape both population health and the ways we measure it. One area of my work quantifies disparities in health by gender, caste, and religion. Another examines how pregnancy and pregnancy loss, including stillbirths, have been overlooked in demographic research, leading to an incomplete picture of global health. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, I study how gendered inequalities influence what, and who, gets counted in fertility and mortality statistics.
Much of my research concentrates on India, where I have lived and worked on issues of rural health and development for periods of time since 2005. For the past decade, I have been a part of a team of researchers at the Research Institute for Compassionate Economics (r.i.c.e.), a non-profit organization focused on child health in India. My interests continue to be rooted in and shaped by my field research there, though my current projects and future research plans now also extend to other countries, both rich and poor. My experiences in India have also shaped my approach to research which includes the use of both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to understand questions from multiple perspectives.
I have a PhD in Sociology & Demography, an MA in Sociology, and an MA in Demography from UC Berkeley, an MPA from Princeton University, and a BA in Economics and Political Economy from UC Berkeley.