Susan Ghanbarpour

December 13, 2017
LEAP

Susan Ghanbarpour, DrPH, MA (she/her) is a researcher and evaluator focusing on community-led and participatory methodologies. Dr. Ghanbarpour has expertise in culturally-responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE), as well as qualitative and mixed-methods research, and is co-author of the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Toolkit for Domestic Violence Researchers. Her skills include integrating language & disability justice, anti-racist, and trauma-informed approaches, informed by research justice principles. Throughout her career, Dr. Ghanbarpour has worked to center the voices of marginalized communities, including communities of color, immigrants, and survivors of gender-based violence, so that they can tell the stories that are important to them. She received her DrPH from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, MA in Health Policy from New York University, and BA in Chemistry from Cornell University. Her work is grounded in her experience as a mixed-race woman of color from the Bronx.