Aline Vandenbroeck holds a B.S and M.S. in Economics and is a doctoral candidate in Health Policy & Administration at the University of Illinois Chicago. Coming from Belgium—where broad access to contraception contrasts with relatively restrictive abortion laws (including a 12-week limit and mandatory waiting periods)—and arriving in the U.S. just two months after the ...Read more >

Access to medication abortion through on-campus health centers may have significant implications for student success and well-being, yet this relationship remains underexplored. As college students face increasingly outsized legal, geographic, and institutional barriers to accessing care, understanding this impact on the student experience is increasingly urgent. While some states have responded to federal abortion bans ...Read more >

Mayrose Porter was in medical school in Texas when the Dobbs decision was announced and stripped her fellow Texans of their right to access abortion. A life-long Southerner with a penchant for international travel, she went to college in Louisiana and studied public health in Thailand before returning to Houston for her medical degree with ...Read more >

Arielle N’Diaye is a rising third-year doctoral student in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests focus on the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) experiences of sexual minority populations, asset and justice-based approaches to family planning research, and ...Read more >

Dr. Isabel Morgan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Maternal Health Equity at Morehouse School of Medicine, and the Senior Advisor of Maternal Health at the Black Women’s Health Imperative. She obtained her PhD in Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and MSPH in ...Read more >

Claire McGlave is pursuing a degree in health economics from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. She is motivated to address disparities in access to reproductive healthcare by studying healthcare markets. Claire completed her undergraduate education at Bates College and received a MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her ...Read more >

This project investigates how Asian immigrant women in the U.S. navigate transnational sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH), aiming to develop a conceptual framework grounded in transnational feminist and intersectional perspectives. Despite the rapid growth of Asian immigrant populations in the U.S., their SRH needs remain understudied, and existing research often treats them as monolithic group. ...Read more >

Bex Groth is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Georgia who specializes in the intersections of political and medical sociology, gender studies and social movements. Specifically, they are interested in how communities advance access to stigmatized healthcare using demedicalized strategies. Alongside research, Bex is involved community education and in public abortion storytelling ...Read more >

Dr. Priyal Fadadu is the current first year Complex Family Planning Fellow at the University of Washington. She completed her medical degree and OB/GYN residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. During her medical training, she completed her Master’s Degree in the Science of Health Care Delivery. Her passion for reproductive health and ...Read more >

This study examines the understudied perspectives of Black fathers in Louisiana regarding abortion and contraception within the context of the fourth trimester. Despite extensive research on maternal perspectives, paternal viewpoints remain largely unexplored, particularly among Black men. Louisiana presents a compelling research environment due to its restrictive reproductive health policies and significant racial disparities in ...Read more >