Cynthia Salter has been affiliated with Pitt’s Global Studies center since 2015, teaching Introduction to Global Health and Special Topics in Global Health. She has previously traveled to Haiti, Spain, Italy, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Colombia and Brazil. This summer she developed a maternal health research initiative in northern Costa Rica.
From 2010-2013, Salter was director of Pittsburgh’s Birth Circle program, a grass-roots non-profit working to improve maternal outcomes among underserved mothers in the Pittsburgh area. She served as principal investigator when the program was awarded one of six national grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration to develop community-based doula services. Prior to her work with the Birth Circle she was a researcher and writer for the former Populations Reports, a globally distributed journal of family planning and related global health topics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs.
Salter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health Sciences at Pitt’s School of Public Health, currently completing her dissertation work on birth trauma. She received her Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her BA from Ohio Wesleyan University in Journalism and English.
