Yasamin Kusunoki, PhD, MPH

Yasamin Kusunoki, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing and a Research Associate Professor and Director of the Training Program at the Population Studies Center within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Her interdisciplinary research program centers on women’s health, with a particular focus on the role of women’s intimate relationships and the mechanisms by which these relationships influence women’s reproductive and mental health. Her research is informed by the socioecological model and the life course perspective by centering women and their intimate relationships within the larger social, race/ethnic, and economic context and emphasizing the dynamic nature of intimate relationships – the characteristics and behaviors of which change across time.