Dr. Azar Mehrabadi, PhD, is a perinatal epidemiologist with expertise in maternal, fetal and newborn health research. Dr. Mehrabadi has been an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Dalhousie University since 2019. She completed a PhD at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health in 2014, and from 2014 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University’s Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. She is currently conducting research using data from Canada and the United Kingdom on obstetrical care and pregnancy-related complications, the effects of the social determinants of health on perinatal health outcomes, and trends in medication use in pregnancy and postpartum in Nova Scotia.