Anna E. Austin, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Anna Austin, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health and core faculty at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center. She is trained in epidemiology and maternal and child health with a research focus on injury and violence prevention.
Her current research centers on the primary prevention of adverse childhood experiences, specifically child abuse and neglect; promoting access to substance use disorder treatment, including among pregnant and parenting people and the Medicaid population; and population-level strategies, including those that address social determinants of health, to prevent injuries and violence and promote overall health and wellbeing.
The translational impact of her research is informed by longstanding partnerships with multiple national, state, and local agencies, including the North Carolina Divisions of Public Health and Health Benefits and the Wake County Division of Child Welfare. She is currently the PI of a CDC-funded R01 to examine the association of state adoption of policies that expand Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility with rates of multiple forms of violence, mental health, and substance use outcomes and is a North Carolina site-PI for the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN).
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