Education
PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2018
MPH, University of California, Berkeley, 2011
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
Overview
Dr. Suzanne Bell has a PhD from the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a focus in demography and a Master's in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. She studies patterns of contraceptive use and its association with unwanted pregnancy and abortion, particularly in the context of population-based surveys. Dr. Bell leads PMA2020's abortion work and provides programmatic and technical support for PMA2020 at large. Through her work, Dr. Bell seeks to provide the evidence necessary to highlight inequities in access to primary and secondary means of fertility control in the United States and internationally.
Honors and Awards
2017 – Laurie Schwab Zabin Award
2017 – Edward J. Dehne Award in Population Dynamics
2015, 2016 – Endowed Fellowship in Family Planning and Reproductive Health
2015 – Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health Travel Scholarship
2015 – JHSPH Center for Global Public Health Research Scholarship
2014, 2015 – Robertson Scholarship
2010 – UC Berkeley Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability Practicum Fellowship
2009, 2010 – US Department of Education Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship