Nancy Berglas, DrPH

Nancy Berglas, DrPH, is an Associate Professor and public health social scientist at ANSIRH whose research focuses on two areas: the health and socioeconomic impacts of abortion policy, and systems that shape young people’s sexual health and well-being.

At ANSIRH, she conducts longitudinal studies examining how state abortion policies – including bans enacted since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision – affect people’s ability to obtain care and their subsequent health outcomes. As part of ANSIRH’s Abortion Facility Database team, she has led analyses documenting changes in the availability of abortion services later in pregnancy since Dobbs.

With colleagues at UCSF’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, she leads a multi-year initiative addressing gaps in sexual health education and services for youth in rural communities of Fresno County. She is also a co-investigator on an NIH-funded randomized trial evaluating an integrated behavioral health and sports intervention for newcomer youth. She serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Sex Education and has taught graduate level coursework in program evaluation at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Dr. Berglas received her BA from Brown University, MHS from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and DrPH from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. 

For a full list of Dr. Berglas' publications, awards, and presentations, click here.