Zoé Hendrickson (she/her) is a social and behavioral scientist whose research centers on how social structures and inequalities are implicated in everyday experiences of health and how people, particularly structurally marginalized populations, seek care. Her contributions to science have focused on 1) the role of geographic mobility in people’s access to care, the environments in which they live and work, and their health care utilization; 2) the impact of other social determinants of health, including gender inequity, on people’s health outcomes; and 3) the innovative use of participatory and qualitative and mixed methods research methodologies to improve health research and practice.
Hendrickson has served as the principal investigator on numerous social and behavior change interventions in West, Central, and East Africa and South Asia designed to improve access to and utilization of sexual and reproductive healthcare, maternal healthcare, and HIV prevention and treatment. She has built collaborations and formed partnerships between researchers, health facilities, regional health departments, and ministries of health to integrate capacity strengthening with rigorous research, program implementation, and evaluation. Throughout her work, teaching and mentorship are a central way through which she works towards equity and impact.
Inequitable access to public health research is widespread, and through her work, she has developed analysis briefs, toolkits, and guidelines that are widely accessible, endorsed by, and used by colleagues and governmental stakeholders around the world. This approach increases the sustainable impact of her work and enables governments, international policymakers, and public health practitioners to make evidence-based decisions and plan strategically. Her work has also been published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Global Public Health, Culture, Health & Sexuality, Plos One, AIDS & Behavior, among other journals.
2017 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore MD | PhD in social and behavioral sciences
2011 | Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA | BA in sociology/anthropology and biology
- Hendrickson, Z. M., Tomko, C., Galai, N., Sisson, L. N., Glick, J. L., & Sherman, S. G. (2023). A Longitudinal Analysis of Residential Mobility and Experience of Client Violence Among Women Who Exchange Sex in Baltimore. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(19–20), 11017–11045.
- Suh, H., Kalai, S., Trivedi, N., Underwood, C., & Hendrickson, Z. M. (2023). Effects of women’s economic empowerment interventions on antenatal care outcomes: a systematic review. BMJ open, 13(3), e061693. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061693
- Underwood, C.R., Casella, A., & Hendrickson, Z.M. (2023). Gender Norms, Contraceptive Use, and Intimate Partner Violence: A six-country analysis. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 100815.
- Hendrickson, Z.M., Tibbels, N., Sidikiba, S., Mills, H., Vondrasek, C., Gurman, T. (2022). ‘I can't leave everything in the hands of my husband’: Economic constraints and gender roles in care-seeking in post-Ebola Guinea. Global Public Health, 1-16.
- Tibbels, N., Dosso, A., Fordham, C., Benie, W., Brou, J. A., Kamara, D., Hendrickson, Z. & Naugle, D. (2022). “On the last day of the last month, I will go”: A qualitative exploration of COVID-19 vaccine confidence among Ivoirian adults. Vaccine, 40(13), 2028-2035.
- Hendrickson, Z. M., Leddy, A. M., Galai, N., Beckham, S. W., Davis, W., Mbwambo, J. K., ... & Kerrigan, D. L. (2021). Mobility for sex work and recent experiences of gender-based violence among female sex workers in Iringa, Tanzania: A longitudinal analysis. PloS one, 16(6), e0252728.
- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (alphabetically: Carmen Cronin, Zoé Mistrale Hendrickson (PI), Nandita Kapadia-Kundu, and Timothy Werwie). (2021). A mixed methods study of preterm births in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Mali: An investigation of individual, household, and community-level factors that influence risk factors for and experiences of preterm birth in three settings. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs.
- Hendrickson, Z.M., & Underwood, C.R. (2020). Intimate communication across borders: Spousal labor migration and recent partner communication about family planning in Nepal. Marriage & Family Review, 56(5), 470-490.
- Hendrickson, Z.M., Naugle, D.A., Tibbels, N., Dosso, A., Van Lith, L.M., Mallalieu, E.C., Kamara, D., Dailly-Ajavon, P., Cisse, A., Seifert-Ahanda, K., Thaddeus, S., Babalola, S., and Hoffmann, C.J. (2019). “You take medications, you live normally”: The role of antiretroviral therapy in mitigating men’s perceived threats of HIV in Côte d’Ivoire. AIDS & Behavior. 23(9), 2600-2609. doi: 10.1007/s10461-019-02614-5.
- Wang, K., Hendrickson, Z., Brandt, C., Nunez-Smith, M. (2019). The relationship between non-permanent migration and non-communicable chronic disease outcomes for cancer, heart disease and diabetes – a systematic review. BMC Public Health. 19:405.
