Celia Karp

Dr. Celia Karp is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, affiliated with the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. She serves as a co-investigator for the Performance Monitoring and Accountability (PMA) and Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) initiatives.

• PhD, Population, Family and Reproductive Health (2020), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• BS, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2014)

Her research focuses on psychosocial determinants of reproductive health, emphasizing reproductive empowerment, quality of care, and health service inequities in low-resource settings. Key themes include contraceptive dynamics, pandemic impacts on family planning, and measurement tool development.

Recent publications highlight her work on contraceptive counseling frameworks, Ethiopia-specific service quality studies, and longitudinal analyses of reproductive health trends. Awards include multiple Johns Hopkins fellowships and a Fulbright scholarship.

• Endowed Fellowship in Family Planning and Reproductive Health (2018, 2019)
• Caroline Cochran Award (2017)
• Kahn Trowbridge Fellowship (2016)
• Fulbright Program Fellowship (2014)