Dr. Linnea Zimmerman has a PhD from the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Masters in Public Health from Emory University. She has a background in demography and focuses on family planning and women's reproductive health research. Her primary interests are in understanding barriers and facilitators to women and couple’s achieving their reproductive health goals, including contraceptive, maternal health, and infertility research. She is particularly interested in understanding how conflict and humanitarian emergencies, including climate events, affect reproductive health.