Anvita Dixit

About

Anvita is a Postdoctoral Fellow in interdisciplinary health sciences at the University of Ottawa, Canada working with the National Abortion Federation contributing to research on demedicalizing medication abortion. She is a PhD graduate in Public Health from the joint doctoral program at University of California San Diego and San Diego State University where her dissertation examined women’s decision-making agency and family planning behaviors in India.

Employment

• University of Ottawa
  2021 - Present
• University of California San Diego
  2016 - 2021
• Population Council Program Officer
  2012 - 2016

Education

• University of California, San Diego Ph.D. Public Health (Global Health)
  ? - 2021
• University of Sussex MSc Health Psychology
  ? - 2012
• University of Sussex BSc Psychology with Sociology
  ? - 2010

Projects & Funding

• MITACS Elevate Mitacs
• Partnership Engage Grant Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Publications (23)

• Exploring Canadians’ experiences with belief-based denial of contraception and abortion care: Results from a qualitative study
  Contraception 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2026.111524
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• Belief-based denial of contraception and abortion care in Canada: A scoping review
  The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 2024 DOI: 10.3138/cjhs-2023-0055
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• A Design-Led Theory of Change for a Mobile Game App (Go Nisha Go) for Adolescent Girls in India: Multimix Methodology Study
  JMIR Formative Research 2023 DOI: 10.2196/43085
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• Association of traditional marital practices with contraceptive decision-making, couple communication, and method use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India
  Anvita Dixit, Nicole E. Johns, Mohan Ghule +9 more
  Culture, Health & Sexuality 2023 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2022.2062052
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• COVID-19 burden, author affiliation and women's well-being: A bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 related publications including focus on low- and middle-income countries
  eClinicalMedicine 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101606
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• A Design-Led Theory of Change for a Mobile Game App (Go Nisha Go) for Adolescent Girls in India: Multimix Methodology Study (Preprint)
  2022 DOI: 10.2196/preprints.43085
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• Qualitative Examination of the Role and Influence of Mothers-in-Law on Young Married Couples’ Family Planning in Rural Maharashtra, India
  Global Health: Science and Practice 2022 DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-22-00050
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• Evaluation of a gender synchronized family planning intervention for married couples in rural India: The CHARM2 cluster randomized control trial
  Anita Raj, Mohan Ghule, Nicole E. Johns +7 more
  eClinicalMedicine 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101334
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• Collective efficacy measures for women and girls in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
  BMC Women's Health 2022 DOI: 10.1186/s12905-022-01688-z
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• Male-female concordance in reported involvement of women in contraceptive decision-making and its association with modern contraceptive use among couples in rural Maharashtra, India.
  Anvita Dixit, Nicole E. Johns, Mohan Ghule +9 more
  Reproductive health 2021 DOI: 10.1186/s12978-021-01187-8
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• Measuring quality of family planning counselling and its effects on uptake of contraceptives in public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India: A cross-sectional analysis.
  PloS one 2021 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239565
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• Male-Female Concordance in Reported Involvement of Women in Contraceptive Decision-Making and Its Association With Modern Contraceptive Use Among Couples in Rural Maharashtra, India.
  Anvita Dixit, Nicole E. Johns, Mohan Ghule +9 more
  2021 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-358822/v1
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• The association between early in marriage fertility pressure from in-laws' and family planning behaviors, among married adolescent girls in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India.
  Reproductive health 2021 DOI: 10.1186/s12978-021-01116-9
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• Male-Female Concordance in Reported Involvement of Women in Contraceptive Decision-Making and Its Association With Modern Contraceptive Use Among Couples in Rural Maharashtra, India.
  ResearchSquare 2021 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-358822
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• The Association Between Early in Marriage Fertility Pressure from in-laws’ and Family Planning Behaviors, Among Married Adolescent Girls in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India.
  2020 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-104439/v1
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• A cross-sectional analysis of intimate partner violence and family planning use in rural India.
  Grace L. Chen, Jay G. Silverman, Anvita Dixit +6 more
  EClinicalMedicine 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100318
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• Unintended pregnancy and maternal health complications: cross-sectional analysis of data from rural Uttar Pradesh, India.
  BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2020 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-020-2848-8
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• Validation of the Interpersonal Quality of Family Planning Scale in a rural Indian setting
  Nicole E. Johns, Anvita Dixit, Mohan Ghule +7 more
  Contraception: X 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.conx.2020.100035
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• A gender synchronized family planning intervention for married couples in rural India: study protocol for the CHARM2 cluster randomized controlled trial evaluation
  Anvita Dixit, Sarah Averbach, Jennifer B. Yore +11 more
  Reproductive Health 2019 DOI: 10.1186/s12978-019-0744-3
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• Family planning counseling and its associations with modern contraceptive use, initiation, and continuation in rural Uttar Pradesh, India
  Reproductive Health 2019 DOI: 10.1186/s12978-019-0844-0
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