Assistant Professor - Currently accepting PhD Students
Biography
Kaylee Ramage, MSc, PhD (pronouns: she/her/hers)
is a qualitative researcher and social epidemiologist whose research focuses on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive decision-making. Dr. Ramage earned her Master of Science in Public Health (Health Promotion) from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom) (2014) and her Doctor of Philosophy in Community Health Sciences (Epidemiology) from the University of Calgary (Canada) (2021). Her current qualitative and quantitative research explores lived experiences of forced migration and its impact on sexual and reproductive health for women at the Mexico-U.S. border and reproductive decision-making and maternal and infant health outcomes in Tennessee.
Education
Education:
- 2010: Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
- 2012: Bachelor of Science in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
- 2014: Master of Science in Public Health (Health Promotion), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- 2021: Doctor of Philosophy in Community Health Sciences (Epidemiology), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Publications
- Kielhold, K., Shannon, K., Zhou, C., Ramage, K., Pitpitan, E., Krüsi, A., Pearson, J., Goldenberg, S.M. (2025). Everyday discrimination and barriers to primary care, mental health, and substance use services: Findings from a community-based cohort of sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (2015-2024).PLOS Global Public Health, 5(6): e0004647. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004647
- Ramage, K., Stirling-Cameron, E., Ramos, N., Martinez SanRoman, I., Spata, A., & Goldenberg, S. (2025). “In the end… I got pregnant. And that wasn’t what the plans were”: threats to reproductive health and rights for migrant women intending to seek safety in the U.S. Social Science in Medicine: Qualitative Research in Health, 7, DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100553
- Ramage, K., Yee, J., Srugo, S., Little, J., & Liu, S. (2025). Prenatal Opioid Use Disorder and the Risk of Congenital Anomalies in Offspring: A Population-based Study. Birth Defects Research, 117(2): e2456
- Goldenberg, S., Ramage, K., Martinez-Torteya, C., Pitpitan, E., Rosenblum, K., Hernandez, C., Alvarez, M., Rangel, G., Bojorquez-Chapela, I. (2025). Mamá Empoderada: study protocol for a pilot trial of a novel parenting and mental health prevention intervention for migrant mothers with young children at the Mexico-US border. BMJ Open, 15: doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-094917