Jennifer J. Prah is an internationally leading scientist and scholar of global and domestic health policy and public health. She conducts theoretical and empirical studies of health equity to address global and national health inequities, especially among women and children. Dr. Prah founded and directs the Health Equity and Policy Lab (HEPL), a mixed methods lab that studies health policy and public health problems such as the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform, the social determinants of health, the health capability profile and domestic violence and abuse. Her research with collaborators is conducted internationally and nationally, including work in Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, South Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, the United States and Vietnam. Dr. Prah is director of the Ortner Center on Violence and Abuse. Dr. Prah received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California-Berkeley, master’s degrees from Oxford University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Yale University, and a doctoral degree from Harvard University.
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