Sarah Blake

Sarah C. Blake, PhD, MA is an Associate Professor and Director of the Emory University Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Center of Excellence. Dr. Blake is also the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. She is a health services researcher who applies a health equity lens to address women’s health care, particularly health disparities in reproductive and maternal and child health. Dr. Blake leads several public health research projects that address access to health care for low-income, medically underserved women and their families. Additionally, Dr. Blake works closely with the CDC and Georgia Department of Public Health to examine how social and community level factors influence maternal morbidity and mortality. Dr. Blake also collaborates with several community-based organizations to address the growing maternal health crisis in Georgia. Dr. Blake is a native of Georgia and served for 5 years as an appointed member of the Georgia Maternal Mortality Review Committee, lending her research and policy expertise to examine the contributing factors and causes of maternal mortality in the state. Dr. Blake received her PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology/Georgia State University joint doctoral program in Public Policy. She teaches several graduate-level public health courses including those related to women’s health policy, qualitative research methods, and foundations of maternal and child health.

Awards:

2024                Faculty Practice Award, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

2022                Faculty Member of the Year, RSPH Student Government Association, Emory University 

2021                Award of Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy, Center for Women, Emory University

2021-2022       Fellow, Woodruff Health Educators Academy (WHEA) Fellowship in Educational Scholarship, Emory University

2019-2020       Fellow, Woodruff Health Educators Academy (WHEA) Teaching Fellowship, Emory University

2018-2019       Fellow, Planning for Success, Center for Aids Research, Emory University

2014                Faculty Inductee, Delta Omega Phi Public Health Honor Society, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

2012                Teaching Award, Department of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University