Ashley Gromis

Ashley Gromis (she/her) is an associate behavioral/social scientist whose work examines the roles of networks, place, and policy in shaping community- and population-level health outcomes and social inequality. Her primary research uses agent-based modeling to understand how spatial clustering of children with exemptions to school-entry vaccine requirements affects the potential for measles outbreaks in California. She also contributes to several projects examining the influence of social networks on perceived infection risk and vaccination decisions for influenza, COVID-19, HPV, and routine childhood immunizations. Previously, as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, she helped develop the first national database of housing eviction lawsuits in the United States and led projects creating comprehensive national estimates of eviction filing prevalence and examining socio-demographic disparities in eviction filings in public housing. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology (University of California, Los Angeles), an MS in health policy and management (University of California, Los Angeles), and BAs in sociology and history (Pennsylvania State University).