Heidi West, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Science at California State University, Long Beach. She works at the intersection of migration, gender, and health, primarily in the global context, and explores links between international frameworks and health system responses to migration. Her current work includes projects in the US, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and cross-country comparisons using binational data and the DHS surveys.
Heidi’s research is bolstered by over a decade of international program development and management experience where she used evidence-based approaches to build capacity and improve collaboration for diverse institutions. With a PhD from UCLA’s department of Health Policy and Management, a Master's in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs from American University, and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from UC Berkeley, Heidi takes an interdisciplinary and mixed methods approach to producing innovative and timely evidence to inform the design and implementation of policy interventions that improve health equity.