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Ali Groves, PhD, MHS

Ali Groves

Associate Professor
Community Health and Prevention
267.359.6274
aligroves@drexel.edu
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Degrees

PhD, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
MHS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
BA, Psychology, Grinnell College

Bio

I am a social and behavioral scientist who uses mixed methods to study how social policies and programs can advance reproductive justice. My work centers on three interconnected areas: (1) the intersections of poverty and health surrounding childbirth; (2) evaluation of social policies and programs designed to mitigate poverty and related affordability challenges; and (3) the ways gender and race shape access to social determinants of health, including education and housing. At the core of my approach is deep collaboration with communities and people with lived experience, ensuring that the evidence I generate supports meaningful policy change and helps reduce health inequities.

Research Interests

  • Reproductive or Sexual Health
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Global Health
  • Data Analysis Methods
  • Health Disparities
  • Community Engaged Research

Publications

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  1. Groves A. K., Coaxum N., Sokale A., He Y., Kallem S., Calloway C., Lee N. L., Gilliam E., Wilson J. S., Vader D. T., Samuels N., Davis I., Presley A., Brown C., Nelson R., Terrell H., Dalembert G., Frances C.*, Cordingley O.*, Valdez, E. S. (n.d.). Going beyond participation: Community-led design and evaluation of the Philly Joy Bank (in press at Frontiers in Public Health).
  2. Roth A.M., Ward K.M., McDowell E., Forman E., Amico K.R., Bartholomew T.S., Krakower D.K., Vader D., Mazzella S., Carrico A.W., Sherman S.G., Groves A.K. “The simplest way to go”: An exploration of why women who inject drugs choose long-acting injectable cabotegravir instead of daily oral PrEP. AIDS and Behavior. 2025 Aug 6.
  3. Groves A.K., Gebrekristos L.T.* , Stoner M.C.D., Kahn K., Gomez-Oliver X., Pettifor A. Assessing the durable impacts of a conditional cash transfer on intimate partner violence and sexual relationships among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa. Available online May 6, 2024. Social Science and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116948
  4. Smith P.D.*, Dilday S.D.*, Keene D.K., Blankenship K.M. Groves A.K. Forced Displacement from Rental Housing and Its Links to Health: A Scoping Review on Eviction. Health and Place 86 (2024): 103182.
  5. Blankenship K.M., Rosenberg A., Schlesinger P., Groves A.K., Keene D.M. Structural Racism, the Social Determination of Health, and Health Inequities: The Intersecting Impacts of Housing and Mass Incarceration. Available online January 2023. American Journal of Public Health. 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307116
  6. Groves, A.K. Smith P.D.*, Gebrekristos L.T.*, Keene L.M., Rosenberg, A., Blankenship K.M. Eviction, intimate partner violence and HIV: Expanding concepts and assessing the pathways through which sexual partnership dynamics impact health Available online May 2022. Social Science and Medicine. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115030
  7. Groves A.K., Vadaketh J.*, Raziano, V.R.*, Nkwihoreze H., Short W., Momplaisir F. PrEP Acceptability among Pregnant Women in the United States and Implications for HIV Prevention in Clinical Practice. Available online 10 March 2022. Obstetrics and Gynecology.
  8. Groves A.K., Gebrekristos L.T. *, Smith P.S. *, Stoebenau K., Stoner M.C.D., Ameyan W., Ezeh A. Adolescent mothers in Eastern and Southern Africa: an overlooked and uniquely vulnerable subpopulation in the fight against HIV. Available online 13 February 2022. Journal of Adolescent Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.12.012

*denotes mentee

See Dr. Groves' full list of publications on PubMed