Dr. Elizabeth Reed
Collaborator | San Diego State University (SDSU) & University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Dr. Elizabeth Reed, ScD, MPH, is a Professor of Global Health at San Diego State University (SDSU) and Co-Director of the SDSU–UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Global Health. Trained in social epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Reed has spent nearly two decades studying how gender inequality, poverty, and structural violence shape health outcomes for women and girls — with a particular focus on intimate partner violence (IPV), sexual and reproductive health, and HIV prevention. Her research spans the United States, Latin America, South Asia, and Africa.
A Bridge Between EAHERI and SDSU/UCSD
Dr. Reed brings expertise at the intersection of gender, poverty, and health, with a particular focus on how gender and economic inequalities shape sexual and reproductive health, violence, and health disparities among women and adolescents. Through collaboration with faculty at San Diego State University and UC San Diego, she complements EAHERI’s community-grounded research, local partnerships, and implementation experience in Uganda with interdisciplinary expertise in intervention development, evaluation, and sexual and reproductive health research. Together, this partnership combines locally grounded knowledge and community trust with the scientific expertise needed to develop and evaluate contextually relevant, evidence-based interventions.
Together, this collaboration has focused on:
Adapting evidence-based interventions for the Ugandan context, including the adaptation of the Jenga Dada model to address sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) among adolescent girls and young women in rural Uganda, and the adaptation of the Girls Invest economic-empowerment model (originally piloted in Nigeria) to integrate HIV stigma reduction and clinic linkage for adolescent girls, pregnant and postpartum women, and female sex workers in Uganda.
Joint grant development, co-developing concept notes and full proposals for international funders focused on HIV, gender-based violence, and adolescent and maternal health, with EAHERI leading community implementation and Dr. Reed contributing technical design and monitoring frameworks grounded in implementation science.
Capacity building and mentorship, supporting EAHERI's research team in applying rigorous, equity-centered methods to program design and evaluation, consistent with principles of locally led global health partnership.
Current Collaborative Protocol
Protocol Skeleton: Hospital Data Platform for Pregnancy, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, HIV, NCDs, Mental Health, and GBV at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda.
