Assistant Professor
DB 5022N
kscott2@yorku.ca
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, WHO, IDRC, and USAID. She holds an associate position at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is also engaged in ongoing collaboration with the University of Cape Town (on the implementation of telemedicine and digital health programs for frontline health workers, and on improving the global measurement of the digital gender gap) and the University of Manitoba (on urban health systems and how specific districts in India achieved exemplary heath system improvement).
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. As a settler on Turtle Island, she prioritizes critical learning and action on decolonization, collective liberation, and the realization of health for all.
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