Siri Suh 35 Claver Place, Apt. 1 Brooklyn, NY 11238 Phone: (917) 232-2835*Email: jsuh@barnard.edu; sirisuh@gmail.com EDUCATION Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences, May 2014 Dissertation: The paradox of post-abortion care: a global health intervention at the intersection of medicine, criminal justice and transnational population politics in Senegal. Committee: Constance Nathanson, Gil Eyal, Mamadou Diouf, Richard Parker, Peter Messeri. M.Phil. in Sociomedical Sciences, October 2010 Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY M.P.H. in Population and Family Health, 2004 University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA B.A. summa cum laude in Sociology, May 2000 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, 2014-2015. PUBLICATIONS Yannick Jaffré and Siri Suh. Where the lay and the technical meet: using an anthropology of interfaces to explain persistent reproductive health disparities in West Africa. Manuscript in progress. Suh, Siri. 'Right tool,' wrong 'job': Manual vacuum aspiration, post-abortion care and transnational population politics in Senegal. Under review at Social Science & Medicine. Suh, Siri. The paradox of post-abortion care: treating abortion complications at the intersection of medicine, criminal justice and transnational population politics in Senegal. In Globalized Experiences: Abortion Politics and Practices. Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, Katrina Ackerman, and Tracy Penny Light, eds. Manuscript in progress. Suh, Siri. 2014. Rewriting abortion: deploying the medical record in jurisdictional negotiation over a forbidden practice in Senegal. Social Science and Medicine 108:20-33. Suh, Siri, Philippe Moreira, and Moussa Ly. 2007. Improving quality of reproductive health care in Senegal through formative supervision: results from 4 districts. Human Resources for Health 5:26. 1
Thiam, Fatim, Siri Suh and Philippe Moreira. 2006. Scaling up post-abortion care services: results from Senegal. Management Sciences for Health Occasional Paper No 5. HONORS AND AWARDS National Competitions Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2013-2014 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, 2013-2014 (declined) International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2010-2011 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2009 Individual Fellowship, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, 2009-2013 Training Fellowship in Gender, Sexuality and Health, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, 2007-2009 Population Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2004-2006 Compton Foundation Fellowship, 2003 Graduate Applied Program Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2003 Columbia University Jack Elinson Award for Published Article of Outstanding Merit, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, 2014 Doctoral Award for Excellence in Global Health, Mailman School of Public Health, 2014 Summer Teaching Scholars Program, 2013 Columbia Population Research Center Fellow, 2009-2014 Summer Research Grant, Institute of African Studies, 2009 and 2010 INVITED TALKS The paradox of post-abortion care: a public health intervention at the crossroads of medicine and law in Senegal. Brown Bag Series, Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY, March 2012. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Panels Organized Conflicts in Health in Senegal. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, November 2014. Medicine on the move: interrogating the direction and meaning of mobility in global health discourse on Africa. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November 2013. Papers Presented It s mostly miscarriage : transforming post-abortion care into a health intervention for saving mothers in Senegal. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, November 2014. 2
In the hands of trustworthy men : the transnational politics of Manual Vacuum Aspiration in Senegal. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2014. Making abortion invisible: documents at the intersection of legal and illegal medical practice in Senegal. Mini-conference on Institutional Ethnography, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, February 2014. Abortion politics without borders: the implementation and practice of post-abortion care in Senegal. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November 2013. Best practices amid local realities: treating complications within the context of Senegal s abortion law. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2013. Uncertainty as power: ways of knowing (or not knowing) and professional authority over abortion in Senegal. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 2013. Rewriting abortion: deploying the medical record in jurisdictional negotiation over a forbidden practice in Senegal. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 2013. A dangerous technology: the multiple meanings of manual vacuum aspiration, from Washington, DC to Dakar. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2013. The paradox of post-abortion care: a public health intervention at the crossroads of medicine and law in Senegal. Mini-conference on Reproductive Health, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February 2012. The paradox of post-abortion care: a public health intervention at the crossroads of medicine and law in Senegal. International Family Planning Conference, Dakar, Senegal, November 2011. CAMPUS TALKS Columbia University In the hands of trustworthy men : the transnational politics of Manual Vacuum Aspiration in 3 Senegalese hospitals. Research Friday Series, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, New York, NY, April 2014. Saving mothers, treating miscarriage: obscuring clandestine abortion in Senegal s national post-abortion care program. Food for Thought Series, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, New York, NY, February 2014. When abortion doesn t count: the practice and politics of measuring abortion in Senegalese hospitals. Conference on Measurement, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, New York, NY, April 2013. 3
TEACHING EXPERIENCE As Instructor Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY The Politics of Population, 2013. School of Public Health, Hunter College, New York, NY Topics in Reproductive Health: Domestic and International Perspectives, 2012. As Teaching Assistant Columbia University, New York, NY The Social World, 2013. Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY The Sociology of Gender, 2012. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY Global Health Priorities, 2010 and 2012 Introduction to Global Health, 2009-2010. As Guest Lecturer School of Public Health, Hunter College, New York, NY Investigating an open secret: conducting research on clandestine abortion in Senegal, in the course Qualitative Research Methods, June 2014. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY Gendered Organizations in the course Critical Perspectives on Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health, April 2014. School of Public Health, Hunter College, New York, NY Looking for meaning: making sense of multiple sources of data, in the course Qualitative Research Methods, November 2012. Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY The global reach of US abortion politics: a case study from Senegal, in the course Sociology of Gender, November 2012. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Graduate Student Intern, 2008 Designed and pretested survey instruments for a national study of abortion incidence in Burkina Faso. 4
Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Dakar, Senegal University of Michigan Population Fellow, 2004-2006 Designed, implemented and evaluated national pilot project for the Standard Days Method; evaluated and co-authored papers on national post-abortion care and formative supervision programs. Averting Maternal Death and Disability, Columbia University, New York, NY Graduate Research Assistant, 2003-2004 Researched trends in UNFPA programming in emergency obstetric care by region and year. Ministry of Health, Ghana Compton/GAP Fellow, 2003 Designed and conducted survey of family planning knowledge, attitudes and practices among 230 men. Finding Common Ground, Columbia University, New York, NY Graduate Research Assistant, 2002-2003 Managed survey database for study on single mother households receiving welfare in three US cities. LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE Global Doctors for Choice, New York, NY Program Assistant, 2008-2010 Developed concept papers, funding proposals and organizational position statements; assembled global database of physician advocacy case studies. New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault, New York, NY Health Policy and Administration Associate, 2007 Developed a system of acute care designed to ensure all sexual assault survivors access to best standard of care at Sexual Assault Forensic Examination (SAFE) centers in New York City. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), New York, NY Consultant, Reproductive Health Branch, 2004 Coauthored Maternal Mortality Update 2004; developed on-line database for emergency obstetric care; organized and participated in a mission to Suriname to analyze maternal health policy. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer for Social Science & Medicine, 2014 to present Reviewer for Reproductive Health Matters, 2014 to present Reviewer for Global Public Health, 2007 to present 5
Reviewer for Global Health Council New Investigators in Health Initiative, 2006-2009 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS African Studies Association American Public Health Association American Sociological Association Eastern Sociological Association Society for the Study of Social Problems LANGUAGES English (native) French (fluent) 6