Aasli Abdi Nur, PhD, MPH, is a recent graduate of the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. During her time at UW, she served as a graduate fellow and trainee with the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology.
Her research interests center on gender, fertility, and family planning, with a particular focus on women’s contraceptive autonomy in the Global South. Her dissertation project examined the measures and methodological approaches used to study fertility change and family planning behavior as well as the challenges with their application. She also conducts research that applies data analysis techniques like topic modeling and bibliometric analysis to published literature on the determinants of family planning behavior to understand the state of knowledge in the field.
Her work has been published in the Journal of Global Health, BMJ Global Health, Women and Birth, and the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.
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PhD in Sociology, 2024
University of Washington
MPH in Global Health, 2017
Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
BA in Anthropology and Arabic, 2013
Washington University in St. Louis