Vandana Sharma

Biography

Awards and Honors

• Award for Canadian Excellence in Women and Children’s Health , 2019
  Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (CanWaCH)
• Canadian Women in Global Health List, 2018
  Canadian Society for International Health
• Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health , 2007
• MPH Capstone Award, 2007
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Sommer Scholarship, 2006 - 2007
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Andrew D. Mason Memorial Award for International Health, 2005
  Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario

Publications

• The association between perceived neighborhood social cohesion and intimate partner violence in a refugee camp in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia.

  Astatke RH, Woldegiorgis T, Scott J, Prata N, Harley KG, Deyessa N, Bennett A, Sharma V. Confl Health 2025 Jan 06

  PMID: 39762880

• Optimizing the Construction of Outcome Measures for Impact Evaluations of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Interventions.

  Chatterji S, Boyer C, Sharma V, Abramsky T, Levtov R, Doyle K, Harvey S, Heise L. J Interpers Violence 2023 08

  PMID: 37032608

• Addressing gender bias in global health imagery.

  Sharma V, Sawyer J, Scott J. Lancet Glob Health 2023 04

  PMID: 36925169

• The Journal of Development Studies

  Björkman Nyqvist M, Leight J, Sharma V. Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria 2025

• Displacement, Polygyny, Romantic Jealousy, and Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Study among Somali Refugees in Ethiopia.

  Abudulai F, Pichon M, Buller AM, Scott J, Sharma V. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022 05 09

  PMID: 35565149