Siri Suh, PhD, MPH

Dr. Siri Suh is the project's principal investigator and associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University, with research interests in global maternal and reproductive health, population and development, and feminist and postcolonial studies of medicine, science and technology. Her research has been funded by the American Association of University Women, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Suh has conducted research on maternal and reproductive health with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Guttmacher Institute, Global Doctors for Choice, and Management Sciences for Health (MSH). Her book, Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal (Rutgers University Press, 2021), received the 2022 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for scholarship in gender and health from the American Anthropological Association. Suh’s current research explores how misoprostol, a uterotonic medication, is transforming technological, clinical, professional, and political landscapes of reproduction in Francophone Africa. Suh holds a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University.