Kelli Stidham Hall, PhD, MS

Kelli Stidham Hall, PhD, MS, is the Associate Dean of Research in the School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, the Thomas Keller Professor in Diversity in the Departments of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences and Epidemiology, and the Co-Director of the Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research at Tulane University. Trained as a social epidemiologist and originally an advanced practice nurse, Dr. Hall's research program addresses the social determinants of and solutions for maternal-child and reproductive health equity in the U.S. and globally. Her work advances policy-relevant, community-engaged, and multi-level interventions through interdisciplinary teams and multisector partnerships. To date, she has raised over $75 million in grant funds to support her collaborative research program, and she currently serves as the principal investigator on five NIH-funded projects focused on studying the effects of health and social policies, poverty, structural racism, health systems factors, and toxic social stress on disparities in maternal morbidity, mortality, mental, and reproductive health. In addition to her leadership roles at Tulane, Dr. Hall is also the Co-Director and MPI of Columbia University’s NIH U54 Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence and the former Founding Director of the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast at Emory University. In 2020, Dr. Hall was elected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.