Anastasia Gage
Tulane University
agage@tulane.edu
Anastasia J. Gage is a Professor in the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development, Tulane University. She holds a Ph.D. in demography. Her research focuses on child marriage, gender-based violence, maternal and reproductive health, and adolescent health. She teaches Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Programs, Monitoring and Evaluation of Maternal and Child Health Programs in Developing Countries, and Adolescent Health Policies and Programs. Dr. Gage has extensive experience on the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of population and health programs in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Ethiopia, Haiti, Jamaica, Niger, Uganda and Zambia and on institutional capacity building for the offer of M&E courses at selected universities in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Gage has served as Tulane Principal Investigator for sub-agreements on a number of USAID-funded projects including MEASURE Evaluation, APHIA II Evaluation (Kenya), the Population and Reproductive Health (PRH) Associate Award, and the Kenya Associate Award.
Woo, M., Gage, A. J., Hernandez, J. H., Akilimali, P. Z., & Bertrand, J. T. (2026). Associations between male partner participation, women’s autonomy, and postpartum care seeking among first time mothers, 15-24 years, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A cross-sectional analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 23(8), 1061. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph23081061
Gage, A. J., Wood, F. E., Gay, R., & Akilimali, P. (2024). Effects of the Momentum project on postpartum family planning norms and behaviors among married and unmarried adolescent and young first-time mothers in Kinshasa: A quasi-experimental study. PloS one, 19(3), e0300342. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300342
Gitonga, E., & Gage, A. J. (2024). Modern contraceptive prevalence and its predictors among non-refugee and refugee Somali Women in Nairobi City, Kenya; a comparative view. Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 5, 1328612. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2024.1328612
Reisz, T., Murray, K., & Gage, A. J. (2024). Associations between child marriage and reproductive and maternal health outcomes among young married women in Liberia and Sierra Leone: A cross-sectional study. PloS one, 19(5), e0300982. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300982
Gage, Anastasia J., Pierre Z. Akilimali, Francine E. Wood, Rianne Gay, C. Olivia Padis, and Jane T. Bertrand. (2023). Evaluation of the effect of the Momentum project on family planning outcomes among first-time mothers age 15-24 in Kinshasa, DRC. Contraception, 125, 110088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2023.110088
2018-2028 United Nations High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, New York, USA
2018-2027 Invited Member, Scientific Advisory Council, Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (French Institute for Demographic Studies), Paris, France
2023-2026 Scientific Advisory Group, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh