Center & Institute Affiliations
Linnea A. Zimmerman, PhD ’14, MPH, studies family planning and women's reproductive health, evaluates use and barriers to critical maternal and newborn health interventions.
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Research Interests
Family planning; reproductive health; maternal mortality; demography; refugee and emergency health; indirect estimation; under-5 mortality; mobile technology; population dynamics; monitoring and evaluation
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Experiences & Accomplishments
Dr. Linnea Zimmerman has a PhD from the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Masters in Public Health from Emory University. She has a background in demography and focuses on family planning and women's reproductive health research. She is the PI of the PMA Ethiopia project, a longitudinal study implemented in Ethiopia to evaluate use and barriers to critical maternal and newborn health interventions. As the Associate Director of Research for PMA, Linnea Zimmerman works with the leadership team and country partners to develop and implement research across all of our countries and work to improve PMA data utilization and accessibility. She is also a member of the Global Early Adolescent Study, focusing on how to improve measurement of empowerment among young adolescents.
Honors & Awards
2015 The C. Esther and Paul A. Harper Award for best dissertation and outstanding academic record
2011-2012 Caroline Cochran Scholarship Fund in Population and Reproductive Health for outstanding student in population studies
2011-2013 Edward J Dehne Award in Population Studies for outstanding student in population studies
May 2008 Best Thesis in Global Health Department, Rollins School of Public Health
2008 Delta Omega Honor Society
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Zimmerman, L.A., Karp, C., Magalona, S., Shiferaw, S., Seme, A. and Ahmed, S. (2023), Exploring Multiple Measures of Pregnancy Preferences and Their Relationship with Postpartum Contraceptive Uptake Using Longitudinal Data from PMA Ethiopia. Studies in Family Planning, 54: 467-486. https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12251
Zimmerman LA., Desta S., Yihdego, M. et al. (2020) “Protocol for PMA-Ethiopia: A new data source for cross-sectional and longitudinal data of reproductive, maternal, and newborn health”. Gates Open Research, 4:126 (https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.13161.1)
Zimmerman, L., Li, M., Moreau, C., Wilopo, S., Blum, R. (2019) “Measuring agency as a dimension of empowerment among young adolescents globally; findings from the Global Early Adolescent Study” Social Science and Medicine-Population Health (doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100454)
Zimmerman LA, Karp C, Kassa M, Lulu B, Yihdego M, Anjur-Dietrich S, Seme A, Shiferaw S, Ahmed S. What is the relationship between contraceptive services and knowledge of abortion availability and legality? Evidence from a national sample of women and facilities in Ethiopia. Health Policy Plan. 2023 Mar 16;38(3):330-341. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czac103. PMID: 36440697; PMCID: PMC10019562