Anna Austin, PhD

Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR

Dr. Austin is an Assistant Professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in the Department of Health Behavior. She is trained in epidemiology and maternal and child health with a research focus on injury and violence prevention.

Her current research centers on the primary prevention of adverse childhood experiences, specifically child abuse and neglect; promoting access to substance use disorder treatment, including among pregnant and parenting people and the Medicaid population; and population-level strategies, including those that address social determinants of health, to prevent injuries and violence and promote overall health and wellbeing. In her research, she uses large survey and administrative data sources and quantitative methods and study designs from statistics, epidemiology, quantitative psychology, and economics.

The translational impact of her research is informed by longstanding partnerships with multiple national, state, and local agencies, including the North Carolina Divisions of Public Health and Health Benefits.