I am a communication scholar dedicated to improving health communication within minority communities. My professional journey has centered on intimate health communication, examining how information about sex, sexuality, contraception, and reproductive health circulates within social networks. My work has been recognized for its innovative integration of communication sciences and sexuality education, significantly advancing our understanding ...Read more >

I am a mixed-race, female-identifying Mexican researcher with over a decade of experience in international abortion research. My educational journey began with an MPH and PhD in International Health and Development from Tulane University. Over the years, I have lived and worked in nine countries, bringing a unique global perspective to my research. My career ...Read more >

Dr. Sameera S. Nayak (she/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research sits at the intersection of migration, gender, and justice, and is informed by her lived experience as a South Asian immigrant to the US. The Changemakers in Family Planning grant will facilitate her ...Read more >

Dr. Laurenia Mangum (she/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. Mangum’s extensive clinical expertise spans family well-being, maternal-child health, community health, and community development, where she worked with women and children of under-resourced and historically marginalized communities to promote optimal ...Read more >

Dr. Samuel, a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation in Women’s Health at East Tennessee State University, holds a PhD in Economics from Indiana University, specializing in Health Economics and Applied Econometrics, and a master’s degree in economics from Vanderbilt University. Originally from Ethiopia, Dr. Samuel served as a university ...Read more >

Dr. Kristen Kirksey is a Project Director at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Connecticut and her MPH from Tulane University. Kristen’s professional experience in community health, training in sociology and public health, and positionality as a Black woman from the US South have ...Read more >

Zoë Lucier-Julian, MD, MPH (they/them) is a community-rooted clinician scientist and organizational leader in reproductive health and justice spaces in Atlanta, GA. Informed by reproductive justice and research justice praxis, Zoë’s work aims to achieve sexual, reproductive, and perinatal health equity through intergenerational and interdependent collaboration in health services research. They currently serve as the ...Read more >

Dr. Tyriesa L. Howard is an assistant professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on socio-behavioral interventions to eradicate sexual, reproductive, and maternal health disparities that disproportionately impact Black women and adolescent girls living in the US. She is the director of the Fathers First Initiative at St. ...Read more >

Anindita Dasgupta is an Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Trained as a public health researcher, and social and behavioral scientist, Dr. Dasgupta’s research focuses on the intersection of gendered inequities of health as they negatively impact the sexual and reproductive health of women and birthing people who ...Read more >

After earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Duke University in 2016, I dedicated my career to improving women’s health. Motivated by a profound desire to impact women’s health outcomes on both structural and local levels, I completed a Master of Science in Nurse Midwifery and a Doctorate in Nursing Practice, specializing in midwifery, ...Read more >