Serwaa Omowale, PhD, LMSW, MPH

Dr. Serwaa S. Omowale is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health, and core faculty in the Center for Pediatric Population Health in the School of Public Health at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She completed her T32-funded postdoctoral fellowship with the California Preterm Birth Initiative at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Omowale earned her PhD in social work and her master’s degrees in social work and public health from the University of Pittsburgh. During her doctoral and public health training, she was awarded an NHLBI diversity supplement. She is also a graduate of Georgia State University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies. She has thirteen years of experience as a social work professional, with clinical social work expertise in maternal and child health, mental health, and substance use. Her current research focuses on work as a social determinant of health and its impact on racial disparities in maternal health and birth outcomes, and on developing culturally responsive interventions to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes among Black women. Dr. Omowale’s career goal is to use various research methodologies to develop population-specific and culturally appropriate interventions that focus on eliminating health disparities and achieving health equity in maternal mental health, maternal mortality and morbidity, and infant mortality