Amelia Reese Masterson, MPH

Amelia Reese Masterson is a public health researcher 13 years of experience in research, evaluation, and program management with expertise in maternal and reproductive health, migration, and health equity. She holds an MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health and is currently pursuing a PhD in Community Health Sciences at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She has published 12 peer-reviewed journal articles, including in BMJ Global Health, BMC Public Health, and Maternal and Child Nutrition. She also serves as Population Health Evaluator at the Cottage Center for Population Health in Santa Barbara County, CA, where she provides research and evaluation leadership on maternal health, community health worker, social determinants of health, and health equity interventions. Amelia has experience leading and supporting multi-method research, with skills in survey design, participatory action research, epidemiology and quantitative methods, and qualitative methods. Previously, Amelia has held research and management roles, including Program Lead on a CDC-funded, breastfeeding equity initiative in New Haven, CT with CARE; Research Consultant on a feminist participatory action research study among Syrian refugee women and girls in Lebanon with the Global Women’s Institute; and Executive Director of a community-based food justice nonprofit in New Haven, CT. She has also served as a Research Advisor in humanitarian responses in the Middle East and North/East Africa with CARE International, International Medical Corps, the American University in Beirut, UNFPA, UNICEF, and Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition.