Kelly Strutz
PhD, MPH
Dr. Kelly Strutz’s research interests center on pregnancy as a critical period for understanding women’s and infants’ health and addressing health disparities. Particular interests include perinatal stress, substance use disorders, maternal health services utilization, and implications of pregnancy for mental health and chronic disease risk.
Currently, Dr. Strutz is collaborating on health services research and evaluation projects for Medicaid-enhanced prenatal care programs, including a quasi-experimental evaluation of a new Michigan Partners for Success pilot program for improving pregnancy outcomes. She also contributed to evaluations of Michigan’s Maternal Infant Health Program and of an Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded demonstration of a county population perinatal system of care. Additionally, she co-leads the MI CARES (Michigan Collaborative Addiction Resources and Education System) initiative to assist physicians in becoming addiction medicine specialists.
Kelly Strutz earned her B.S from the University of Rochester, New York in 2002 and her Master’s degree from the University of Rochester in 2009. Her Ph.D. was completed in 2013 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Following her postdoctoral training in Epidemiology at Michigan State University, Dr. Strutz was appointed Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University in the Department of Public Health from 2015-17. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University.
