About Sarah E. K. Bradley

Sarah E. K. Bradley is the Global Research Director for the SHOPS Plus project overseeing all core research and also serves as the Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation lead for the Afghanistan and Nepal programs. She has 16 years of experience in international public health research, most recently as a senior research associate for the Demographic and Health Surveys  Program. She has authored numerous publications on contraceptive discontinuation, unmet need for family planning, data quality, and the health consequences of unintended childbearing. Bradley holds a master’s degree in health science from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in demography from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Expertise

Family planning, contraceptive discontinuation, data analysis, population-based surveys, capacity strengthening, data visualization

Country Experience

Afghanistan, Botswana, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Pakistan, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

Authored Publications

• Sources for Sick Child Care in 24 USAID Priority Countries
• Sources for Family Planning: Where Women Go and Why It Matters
• Evidence-based social marketing in Afghanistan and Nepal: Using data to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Informing Reproductive and Child Health Social and Behavior Change Programs: Findings from a household survey in Nepal
• Use of the opportunity, ability, and motivation behavior change framework to generate family planning demand in rural settings: Findings from Nepal
• Using data to design an evidence-based social and behavior change program in rural Nepal
• Executive Summary: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Surveys in Nepal
• Saving Children through Increased Access to Care: The Transformational Power of Data
• Where Do Caregivers Take Their Sick Children for Care? An Analysis of Care Seeking and Equity in 24 USAID Priority Countries
• Understanding Modern Contraceptive Sources Among Adolescents: A Global Analysis
• Setting global research priorities for private sector child health service delivery: Results from a CHNRI exercise