Assistant Professor
Merrimack College
Dr. Amy Shafrir, Sc.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Public Health at Merrimack College, North Andover, MA. She graduated with an M.Sc. in Public Health Research from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and with an Sc.D. in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her current research interests include characteristics and biological markers that are related to receiving a diagnosis of endometriosis and to how well patients respond to endometriosis treatments over time. She conducts research mainly within the Women’s Health Study: from Adolescence to Adulthood, which has been following participants with and without endometriosis for over 10 years. Recently, she has started to conduct research in health disparities and endometriosis. She is currently conducting a qualitative, interview-based study to assess how racial and ethnic groups may experience different barriers to reaching an endometriosis diagnosis, which on average takes seven years from the start of symptoms to receiving a diagnosis.