Abhery Das
Assistant Professor
Health Policy and Administration
Contact
Building & Room:
SPHPI 786
Address:
1603 West Taylor St. Chicago, IL 60612
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About
Abhery Das’ research examines how policies and inequitable social systems affect the mental and maternal health of communities of color.
Her dissertation focused on institutional racism in the criminal justice system and how police stops, police killings of unarmed Black Americans and incarceration result in greater psychiatric help-seeking in the broader Black population. Currently, she is evaluating how drug reform policies affect mental health in communities of color, as well as suicide prevention measures among youth of color. In another line of work, she assesses how policies and community-level factors influence disparities in cesarean births.
Prior to her career in research, Abhery worked in healthcare change management consulting, mental health rehabilitation, and psychiatric clinical trials.
Selected Grants
National Institute of Mental Health, F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Predoctoral Fellowship
Selected Publications
Das A, Esposito M, Bruckner T, Lee H. Incarceration and Psychiatric Emergencies among Black Americans. Milbank Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.70032
Masoumirad M, Huo S, Das A, Bruckner T. Hate crimes and psychiatric emergency department visits among Asian Americans. Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org.proxy.cc.uic.edu/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117624
Das A, Huo S, Bustos B, Masoumirad M, Bruckner T, Stolte A. Racialized economic segregation and suicide among Black youth. Accepted to American Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae476
Das A, Casey J, Gemmill A, Stolte A, Bustos B, Lee H, Bruckner T. Dynamic changes in place-based structural racism and preterm birth in the US. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2023-221750
Das A, Morey B, Bruckner T. Mental health symptoms following the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol. Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116015
Das A, Singh P, Kulkarni AK, Bruckner TA (2021). Emergency Department visits for depression following police killings of unarmed African Americans. Social Science & Medicine. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113561.
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Education
BA in Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
MHS in Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University
PhD in Public Health, University of California Irvine
Professional Memberships
Population Association of America (PAA)
Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER)