Doctoral Student Profile - Stephanie Bogdewic
Stephanie Bogdewic, MPH
Program Initiated: 2017
Primary Advisor: Herbert Peterson, MD
Minor: Applied Implementation
Research Interests: International family planning, implementation science, health systems integration and improvement
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Honors/Awards: FHI 360-UNC Public Health Research Fellowship (2018-2019); Maternal and Child Health Training Grant (2017-2018)
Bio: Stephanie Bogdewic is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Her research interests focus on (1) identifying best practices for provision of family planning services, situated within patient-centered and rights-based approaches; and (2) utilizing constructs of implementation and organization sciences to scale-up sustainable patient-centered practices within family planning services. Stephanie was awarded the FHI 360-UNC Public Health Research Fellowship in 2018, where she works within the Behavioral, Epidemiological, and Clinical Sciences Division and the Contraceptive Technology Innovation Department. She also supports the efforts of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research Evidence for Sexual and Reproductive Health at UNC.
Prior to starting the doctoral program, Stephanie served as a research and evaluation analyst with Cicatelli Associates, Inc. (CAI), designing and implementing program evaluations primarily focused on family planning; adolescent sexual health and pregnancy prevention; and maternal and child health. Previously, Stephanie supported research efforts at Power to Decide, the campaign to prevent unplanned pregnancy and worked at Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, helping to launch Nurse Family Partnership Indiana. Stephanie received her MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences in 2015. She graduated with a certificate in Health Promotion Research and Practice and received the department’s Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award. Stephanie received her BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs in 2012, with minors in sociocultural anthropology and psychology.