Assistant Professor of Public Health
Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences
Emory Rollins School of Public Health
Biography
BIRCWH Scholar: 2025
Sara K. Redd, PhD, MSPH, is a Georgia native, an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences (BSHES), and the Director of Research Translation with the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE) at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Trained in health policy, health services research, and socio-behavioral science, Dr. Redd is an interdisciplinary scholar of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in the United States. More specifically, Dr. Redd studies domestic sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policy and equity, structural determinants of access to SRH care and downstream health outcomes, and multilevel SRH stigma and mis/disinformation. Informed by the Reproductive Justice framework, Dr. Redd examines and highlights how sociopolitical systems and structures enforce or ameliorate inequities in SRH access and outcomes, paying special attention to those living in the Southeastern U.S. Additionally, Dr. Redd is privileged to collaborate closely with several local and national reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations to support and conduct community-led and community-driven SRH research.
During her BIRCWH award period, Dr. Redd will longitudinally investigate the effect of county- and state-level structural determinants of health on maternal health outcomes and inequities in Georgia, and use qualitative methods to conduct consensus building with shareholder groups to identify opportunities for structural interventions addressing Georgia’s maternal health crisis.
Dr. Redd’s mentor is Don Operario, PhD.