Sophie M. Morse, PhD, MPP

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.  I also work on the Beyond the Bill Team at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. I hold a PhD in Public Policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a Master's in Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. 

 

My research interests lie at the intersection of health policy and systems and women's health in the US and Latin America. I am interested in how health providers respond to people who have experienced gender-based violence and seek contraception and antenatal and postpartum care. 

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My work has been funded by a pre-doctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), AHRQ, a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, the WW Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies, and a P.E.O. International Scholar Award (among others).

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I have also worked as a consultant for the Pan American Health Organization on various projects aimed at strengthening the health system capacity to respond to gender-based violence. 

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Before starting my PhD at the LBJ School, I worked at a non-profit in the Dominican Republic, served as a community health volunteer in the Peace Corps in Uganda, and studied the health care provider response to sexual violence in Bogotá, Colombia on a Fulbright Scholarship.