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. She is a demographer and epidemiologist with primary interests in fertility; maternal, perinatal, and reproductive health; and life course and aging. Her most recent work examines contextual influences on fertility and reproductive health, the impact of macrosocial stressors on population health, and how women’s risk preferences and perceptions impact reproductive health behaviors and outcomes. Dr. Gemmill is also involved in several projects aimed to improve measurement and monitoring of global population health indicators, including an ongoing collaboration with the UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group.
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