Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics Dr. Swartzendruber’s research focuses on women’s sexual and reproductive health and maternal and child health. Her research interests reflect a comprehensive view of health and wellbeing, spanning individual and social determinants of health, service delivery, and health policy. In line with a life course perspective, much of Dr. Swartzendruber’s research focuses on health behavior, health services, and outcomes during critical periods and life transitions, particularly adolescence and young adulthood, pregnancy, and parenting. Her research areas include: women’s sexual and reproductive health services adolescents and young adults health policy family planning substance use sexually transmitted infections HIV health disparities
