Lasha Clarke, PhD MPH Clarke serves as Co-Director of CORAL’s Community Partnership Core (CPC). At Morehouse School of Medicine, she is Assistant Director of Research and Translation at the Center for Maternal Health Equity and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. As a social epidemiologist committed to advancing health equity, Dr. Clarke leverages community-driven, mixed-methods research to address structural and systemic disparities in reproductive and maternal health outcomes. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Fertility Equity Study exploring Black families’ experiences navigating infertility, and an Investigator for the HRSA-funded Project SOAR (Supporting and Advancing Maternal Health in Rural Communities). Prior to joining the Center for Maternal Health Equity as a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Clarke completed her PhD in epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, where she was selected as a predoctoral trainee with the Center for Reproductive Health in the Southeast (RISE) and the Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence. Her doctoral dissertation, titled "Correlates and consequences of gendered racial stress among pregnant Black women," investigated mechanisms through which social stress gets under the skin to bring about adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. Dr. Clarke received a Master of Public Health degree in global epidemiology also from Rollins and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Princeton University. Throughout her career in public health, she has worked with state health departments across the southeast; the CDC's Divisions of Reproductive Health and Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention; and as an evaluator and consultant for equity- and justice-centered projects of various size. Dr. Clarke is a trained birth doula; an inducted member of the Edward A. Bouchet National Graduate Honor Society; and a recipient of the Woman of Excellence Award from the Center for Women at Emory University.