Abhery Das, PhD
Health Policy and Administration
Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate
Pronouns: She/Her
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Abhery Das’ research examines how policies and inequitable social systems affect the mental and maternal health of communities of color.
Her dissertation focused on institutional racism in the criminal justice system and how police stops, police killings of unarmed Black Americans and incarceration result in greater psychiatric help-seeking in the broader Black population. Currently, she is evaluating how drug reform policies affect mental health in communities of color, as well as suicide prevention measures among youth of color. In another line of work, she assesses how policies and community-level factors influence disparities in cesarean births.
Prior to her career in research, Abhery worked in healthcare change management consulting, mental health rehabilitation, and psychiatric clinical trials.