About
Akilah Wise is a writer and postdoctoral research fellow at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health where she studies place-based correlates of HIV risk-related behaviors among people who inject drugs. Dr. Wise work centers on using reproductive justice to examine inequities in reproductive health and HIV in the United States. She received her PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan where she was a National Institutes of Health-funded predoctoral trainee at the Population Studies Center. At the Population Studies Center, she examined the social construction and structural context of unintended pregnancy using an interdisciplinary ecological model, specifically analyzing the association between early life educational advantage and pregnancy intention in adulthood among U.S. women. Prior to Emory University, Dr. Wise was a research fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she examined the association between incarceration and HIV among at-risk heterosexual men and women using surveillance data. She has written about social and structural inequities and reproductive health for The Nation, Rewire, and Emory Health Digest.
Current Work:
Akilah is currently working on manuscripts that examine the association between place-based characteristics and HIV-related outcomes, e.g. exchange sex and incarceration, and the health services environment for people who inject drugs.
Research area keyword(s):
Structural determinants; reproductive health; HIV; racial health disparities; social environment
