Shalmali Bane, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Translational Research Fellow at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research within the Women’s and Children’s Health Section. She earned her PhD and MS in Epidemiology and Clinical Research at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and her bachelor’s degree in biology with a focus on Neurobiology at Stanford University.
Shalmali’s research interests include the application of rigorous epidemiologic methods to study how social determinants of health impact perinatal outcomes. She is also interested in research that advances equitable access to contraception and abortion. Her prior research explored how socially determined race/ethnicity and socioeconomic disadvantage impact rates of low-risk cesarean birth, as well as the impact of cesarean birth on maternal morbidity in future births. She aims to expand on this work to study how social determinants of health impact cardiometabolic outcomes in pregnancy such as a gestational diabetes, with an interest in mobile health interventions to improve outcomes. Her work ultimately aims to inform how all individuals who desire to do so, can safely and equitably give birth.
Current Positions
- Research Fellow
Section Affiliations
Primary Research Interests
- Social determinants of health in pregnancy
- Health disparities
- Maternal and child health
- Perinatal epidemiology
- Reproductive health
