May Sudhinaraset, PhD | Principal Investigator

Dr. Sudhinaraset is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair in Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at UCLA. She is trained as a social epidemiologist from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on understanding the social determinants of migrant, adolescent, and women’s health both globally and in the US. She focuses on birthing people’s experiences during childbirth, family planning and abortion services, development of quality improvement interventions in Kenya and India, and large-scale maternal and child health evaluations globally and in the US. She currently is Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded BRAVE Study (Bridging communities Raising API Voices for health Equity), the first study to collect national data on the Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare experiences of Asian immigrant women.