Hallie Dau is a Liu Scholar and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health. She also holds a Canadian Doctoral Scholar award. Hallie is supervised by Dr. Gina Ogilvie. She obtained her Master of Public Health in maternal and child health from The George Washington University where she researched the impact of the Liberian civil war on maternal and child health.
Her doctoral research focuses on the social and economic impacts of cervical cancer on women and children in Uganda. Along with her study partners at the Uganda Cancer Institute, Hallie led the development and implementation of a mixed-methods study that recruited women undergoing cervical cancer treatment in Uganda. The data from this study will be used to demonstrate the far-reaching impacts that a cervical cancer diagnosis has on not only Ugandan women, but their children as well.
As a Liu Scholar, Hallie will work under the mentorship of Dr. Veena Sriram where she will write a policy brief using the data she collected to advocate for the expansion of the cervical cancer screening program in Uganda.
In her free time Hallie likes to be in the ocean, read, knit, and explore British Columbia.
Research interests: global health, cervical cancer, contraception, women’s health, and implementation science
Email: Hdau@student.ubc.ca
Twitter: @Hallie_Dau