Sarah C. Blake

Sarah C. Blake, PhD, MA is an Associate Professor and Director of the Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. She is a health services researcher who applies a health equity lens to address women’s health care, particularly health disparities in reproductive and maternal and child health. Dr. Blake leads several public health research projects that address access to health care for low-income, medically underserved women and their families. Additionally, Dr. Blake works closely with the CDC and Georgia Department of Public Health to examine how social and community level factors influence maternal morbidity and mortality. Dr. Blake also collaborates with several community-based organizations to address the growing maternal health crisis in Georgia. Dr. Blake is a native of Georgia and is an appointed member of the Georgia Maternal Mortality Review Committee, lending her research and policy expertise to examine the contributing factors and causes of maternal mortality in the state. Dr. Blake received her PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology/Georgia State University joint doctoral program in Public Policy. She teaches several graduate-level public health courses including those related to women’s health policy, qualitative research methods, and foundations of maternal and child health.