Kerry Scott (she/her), PhD, MSc, is Assistant Professor in the School of Global Health, specializing in implementation research and knowledge mobilization.
Her research focuses on power, gender, accountability, and community health systems. She has examined these topics through a variety of studies, including on drivers of exemplary improvement in maternal and neonatal survival, the performance of India’s ASHA community health workers, an impact evaluation of the world’s largest maternal mHealth messaging program, and implementation research on efforts to strengthen India’s village health, sanitation, and nutrition committees. She has also made contributions to methodological innovation on the use of cognitive interviewing to improve survey research in global health.
Her work has been funded through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, IDRC, and USAID. She holds an associate position at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is also engaged in ongoing collaborations with the University of Cape Town (on strengthening digital health programs, improving measurement of the digital gender gap) and University of Manitoba (on urban health systems and district level drivers of success).
Dr. Scott received her PhD in International Health from Johns Hopkins University and her MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a Commonwealth Scholar, Emerging Voice for Global Health alumni, and associate editor at BMJ Global Health with over 78 peer reviewed manuscripts and 6 book chapters. As a settler on Turtle Island, she prioritizes critical learning and action on decolonization, collective liberation, and the realization of health for all.
Research Keywords
community participation; health systems strengthening; health policy and systems research; primary health care; governance and accountability; digital health
Themes | Global Health Foresighting |
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