Pere DeRoy

Pere DeRoy (she/her) is a health and development policy analyst whose research focuses on advancing global and national reproductive health equity. Pere doctoral research examined stories of causation underpinning international policy responses to maternal mortality (and morbidity), and respective policy successes and failures within context of biomedicine and traditional health systems. As an interdisciplinary policy researcher situated in the medical humanities, Pere continues research that focuses on understanding the ways in which structural and social determinants of health such as colonialism, coloniality, race, and gender constructions influence childbearing-related attitudes, policy and practices that underpin reproductive health disparities and inequities, and health system utilization patterns in North America and the English-speaking Caribbean.

With a focus on social impact of academic research, Pere’s research builds on 12+ years of non-academic work experience with state agencies, international and community-based organizations in roles of program manager, community consultant, and qualitative researcher with a commitment to improving education, national development goals, sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and youth advocacy, gender, sexuality & the law, and the prevention of gender-based violence and human trafficking. Pere has over 7 years of teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in areas of international women’s and gender rights, qualitative research designs and methods, and the politics of contraceptive development, investment, provision & access.

Research areas: 

• Sexual & Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice
• Reproductive policy and Agenda-setting
• Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis
• Decolonial transnational feminism, international political economy (IPE), and the racialized-gendered labor market.