Sabrina Boyce

Dr. Sabrina Boyce serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, where her research addresses gender inequity as an upstream determinant of poor health among women, adolescents, and sexual/gender minorities through community and societal-level interventions.

Her academic foundation includes:

• PhD in Epidemiology from University of California, Berkeley
• MPH from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• BA in Human Biology from Stanford University

Dr. Boyce investigates intimate partner violence prevention, reproductive coercion, and LGBTQ+ youth experiences through innovative methodologies including social network sampling and causal inference. Her work centers on dismantling harmful social norms around gender, race, and ability that perpetuate violence, emphasizing community-level prevention as critical for addressing structural inequities.

She has secured major funding from NIH, CDC ($1.125 million for California sexual violence prevention), and California Department of Public Health, with additional collaborations through Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Key recognitions include:

• Fulbright Fellowship

Dr. Boyce co-facilitates the BPH Sexual Violence Sexual Harassment Committee and leverages 8+ years of research experience from UC San Diego's Center on Gender Equity and Health to advance evidence-based public health solutions.