Vijaya Kancherla PhD

Dr. Vijaya Kancherla, Ph.D., is the Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Kancherla also serves as the Associate Director for the Applied Epidemiology Track for the Executive Master of Public Health (EMPH) Program at Emory University. She instructs graduate courses in the Department of Epidemiology and the EMPH program at Rollins. She serves as an epidemiologist at the Center for Spina Bifida Prevention at Emory University.

Dr. Kancherla has received her doctoral degree in Epidemiology from the University of Iowa in 2010 and completed post-doctoral training as Pierre Decouflé Fellow with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2012. Her research interests are broadly focused on maternal and child health, with an emphasis on birth defects surveillance, research, prevention, healthcare utilization, and policy. She serves on various research and service committees, both national and international, in the field of birth defects. Dr. Kancherla is an affiliate member of the International Clearinghouse on Birth Defects Surveillance and Research, Vice-Chair of the Public Affairs Committee of the Teratology Society, and engaged as a Consultant & Technical Expert in the Global WHO Birth Defects Technical Working Group at the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization.