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Karen Weidert, MPH

Karen Weidert is a technical and strategic advisor with the Bixby Center, applying 15 years of experience in international and domestic program management to the Bixby Center’s ongoing efforts to increase access to family planning and safe abortion in sub-Saharan Africa. Karen supports a wide range of activities at the Bixby Center, including study design and implementation, proposal and publication writing, and oversight of grants and contracts. She first joined the Bixby Center in 2009 as a graduate student researcher while completing her MPH in the Health and Social Behavior Program at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. While a graduate student, Karen was a Bixby International Health Fellow, focusing on implementation and monitoring of the Misoprostol Pilot Project in Zambia. She was also a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow with a focus on East Africa and has co-facilitated a health and human rights graduate seminar.

Prior to graduate school, Karen was a fellow with the Amy Biehl Foundation in South Africa and worked with South Africa Partners in Boston before eventually moving to San Francisco to oversee several projects aimed at diversifying the health care workforce in California. She received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University, majoring in Biology and Psychology. Her current research interests lie in employing a human rights framework to enhance adolescents’ and women’s reproductive health.

    Team members

    • Valencia Winarta
    • Natalie Morris
    • Marc D. Mitchell
    • Ndola Prata, MD, MSc
    • Colette (Coco) Auerswald, MD, MS
    • Martha Madison Campbell, PhD
    • David Cao, MPH
    • Emily Colby
    • Maggie Crosby
    • Julianna Deardorff, PhD
    • Riya Desai
    • Alisha Graves, MPH
    • Kim Harley, PhD
    • Nuriye Nalan Sahin Hodoglugil, MD, MA, DrPH
    • Sarah Jane Holcombe, PhD, MPH, MPPM
    • Robert (Nap) Hosang, MD, MPH, MBA, FRCOG, FACOG
    • Kristina Kastler, MPH
    • Adiba Khan
    • Sandra McCoy, PhD, MPH
    • Alexandra Nicole Origenes
    • Paige Passano, MPH
    • Andrew Pastor
    • Joanna Percher
    • Daniel Perlman, PhD
    • Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG
    • Tami Rowen MS, MD
    • Uma Sen
    • Nelie Sithong
    • Karen Sokal-Gutierrez MD, MPH
    • Katrina Su
    • Dilys Walker, MD, FACOG
    • Julia Walsh, MD, MSc
    • Karen Weidert, MPH

    Recent News

    • Dr. Holcombe Has Published an Article on Advocacy by Ethiopia’s Obstetrician-Gynecologist Society in the Journal Health Policy and Planning

      March 22, 2018
    • Bixby Center is now accepting applications to fund summer internships or doctoral research

      December 11, 2017
    • Malcolms Potts has commentary in SF Chronicle: Cultural debate over harassment is a step in human evolution

      December 5, 2017
    • UC Berkeley Global Health is Offering Summer Reporting Internship 2018

      November 21, 2017

    Upcoming Events

    1. Dr. Prata and Natalie Morris Will Be Presenting at the Psychological Workshop and PAA

      April 24 - April 28
    2. Dr. Nouhou Presenting: Women’s Empowerment and Fertility Decision Making in Niger

      May 2 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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    The Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability is dedicated to helping achieve slower population growth within a human right framework by addressing the unmet need for family planning. Learn more

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