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Anvita Dixit

0000-0002-6155-8628

Research Scientist (Public health not elsewhere classified)

Anvita is a Postdoctoral Fellow in interdisciplinary health sciences at the University of Ottawa, Canada working with the National Abortion Federation contributing to research on demedicalizing medication abortion. She is a PhD graduate in Public Health from the joint doctoral program at University of California San Diego and San Diego State University where her dissertation examined women’s decision-making agency and family planning behaviors in India. She trained as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Center on Gender Equity and Health, UCSD, where she worked in areas of gender equity measures and family planning and intervention using male involvement. Before her PhD, she carried out reproductive health research at the Population Council in India. She earned her BSc in Psychology and Sociology, and MSc in Health Psychology from the University of Sussex, UK.

Publications

  • Male-female concordance in reported involvement of women in contraceptive decision-making and its association with modern contraceptive use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India.
  • Measuring quality of family planning counselling and its effects on uptake of contraceptives in public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India: A cross-sectional analysis.
  • The association between early in marriage fertility pressure from in-laws' and family planning behaviors, among married adolescent girls in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Validation of the Interpersonal Quality of Family Planning Scale in a rural Indian setting
  • A cross-sectional analysis of intimate partner violence and family planning use in rural India.
  • Medical barriers to emergency contraception: A cross-sectional survey of doctors in North India
  • Mainstreaming of emergency contraception pill in India: Challenges and opportunities
  • Unintended pregnancy and maternal health complications: cross-sectional analysis of data from rural Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Family planning counseling and its associations with modern contraceptive use, initiation, and continuation in rural Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Qualitative Examination of the Role and Influence of Mothers-in-Law on Young Married Couples’ Family Planning in Rural Maharashtra, India
  • COVID-19 burden, author affiliation and women's well-being: A bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 related publications including focus on low- and middle-income countries
  • Evaluation of a gender synchronized family planning intervention for married couples in rural India: The CHARM2 cluster randomized control trial
  • Association of traditional marital practices with contraceptive decision-making, couple communication, and method use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India
  • Male-Female Concordance in Reported Involvement of Women in Contraceptive Decision-Making and Its Association With Modern Contraceptive Use Among Couples in Rural Maharashtra, India.
  • Collective efficacy measures for women and girls in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
  • Health care providers’ perspectives on delivering gender equity focused family planning program for young married couples in a cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Maharashtra, India [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
  • A gender synchronized family planning intervention for married couples in rural India: Study protocol for the CHARM2 cluster randomized controlled trial evaluation

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Co-workers & collaborators

  • Anita Raj

  • Lotus McDougal

  • Nabamallika Dehingia

  • Rebecka Lundgren

  • Anita Raj

  • Meredith Pierce

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