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The ARCHES team is composed of researchers at the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California San Diego and Tulane University.
Dr. Silverman is the Usdin Family Professor of Community Health and Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Research on Violence against Women (CERVAW) at the Tulane Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Formerly, he was a Professor of Global Public Health and Co-founder of the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California San Diego. For the past 25 years, Dr. Silverman has led research programs (primary funders – NIH, CDC, Gates Foundation) on understanding and preventing violence against women and girls (VAW), including epidemiologic studies, development and testing of new concepts and measures related to VAW and women’s reproductive agency (e.g., reproductive coercion, gender-based household maltreatment, coercive sexual environments, reproductive decision-making control) and rigorous evaluations of scalable community and health service-based interventions to reduce VAW and support women’s reproductive choices (e.g., Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings [ARCHES], Jenga Dada, Close to Home) across multiple global regions and populations. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed manuscripts on these topics. Dr. Silverman is also co-author of the award-winning practitioner guidebook, The Batter as Parent (Sage, 2002; 2009).
Erin Pearson, PhD, MPH, is Research Scientist at the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California, San Diego and a postdoctoral fellow under Dr. Silverman at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Pearson served as the Principal Investigator of the ARCHES evaluations in Bangladesh and Co-Investigator on the scale-up of ARCHES in Kenya, adaptation to Mexico, Bolivia, and Indonesia, and community-based adaptation in Kenya. She is a social epidemiologist and mixed methods researcher with expertise in sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, and impact evaluation. Her research focuses on developing and testing interventions to address gender-based inequities in sexual and reproductive health, particularly the impact of intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion on women’s use of contraception and abortion. Dr. Pearson most recently served as Associate Director of Learning and Innovation at Ipas where she led research on self-managed abortion, postabortion contraception, measurement of abortion quality, and worked in partnership with GEH on Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings (ARCHES) studies. Dr. Pearson holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jasmine Uysal, MPH, is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Center on Gender Equity and Health (GEH) at the University of California, San Diego where she has worked for over seven years on ARCHES projects in low- and middle-income country settings. She has served as a Co-Investigator on the ARCHES scale-up in Kenya, adaptation in India, and community-based adaptation in Kenya. Mrs. Uysal is in training as an implementation scientist with a focus on adaptation, implementation, and scale-up of evidence-based interventions to prevent violence against women and children and improve women’s sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Mrs. Uysal also works with other investigators at GEH-UCSD on projects involving social norms shifting, male engagement, and family planning. Before joining the ARCHES team, Jasmine was co-investigator on two domestic reproductive health research studies based in the United States. Jasmine is now pursuing her doctoral degree from the UC San Diego and San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health – Global Health and she has her MPH from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Jamie Menzel is a Research Data Analyst with the Center on Gender Equity and Health. She leads data-related activities for the Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings (ARCHES) studies. Jamie has over 10 years of experience working in global public health with a focus on research, monitoring, and evaluation for sexual and reproductive health programs. She has led data management and analysis for research studies focused on self-managed abortion, postabortion contraception, measurement of abortion quality, and worked in partnership with GEH on ARCHES adaptations in Bangladesh while working with Ipas. Jamie holds an MPH in Global Health & Health Disparities from the Colorado School of Public health.
