My professional career trajectory changed since completing my Complex Family Planning fellowship in 2016. I entered the subspecialty with a strong desire to pursue abortion and graduate medical education. I started a Ryan Residency Training Program and became an Associate Residency Program Director. However, as I changed institutions, my desire to pursue graduate medical education ...Read more >

Dr. Gaby Alvarado is a physician and an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who focuses on maternal health and sexual and reproductive health using a reproductive justice framework. She obtained her doctorate in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and her medical degree from the University of Costa Rica. She also ...Read more >

The field of family planning has historically focused on the uptake and continuation of hormonal contraceptive methods, specifically long-acting reversible methods. Our emphasis on the uptake and continuation of hormonal methods perpetuates the idea that these methods are superior to non-hormonal methods, regardless of individual preferences and circumstances, which can lead to stigmatization of non-hormonal ...Read more >

Madeline Smith is a second-year medical student at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She received her Master of Public Health with a concentration in global health, and B.A. in Biology and Modern Middle Eastern Studies, from the University of Pennsylvania. While completing her MPH, Madeline worked full-time in Penn’s Department of ...Read more >

Alex Schulte is a second-year Health Policy PhD student at UC Berkeley and a Fellow in the Computational Social Science training program. She is also a Data Analyst at UCSF Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) and a Graduate Student Researcher at the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity (SHARE) program at UC Berkeley. She ...Read more >

“Taylor (she/her) is a postdoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina. She uses community-engaged and mixed methods research approaches to examine structural and policy determinants of reproductive health inequities. She received her PhD in epidemiology with a certificate in demography from the University of Washington and her MPH from ...Read more >

This study addresses a methodological weakness of studying population-wide interventions on outcomes of sexual reproductive health and well-being: inefficient consideration of the state policy environment. Current approaches to including the state policy environment in analyses are crude, incomplete, or irrelevant to family planning or reproductive health research. Policies do not act in a vacuum; they ...Read more >

Rachel Murro (she/her) is a PhD Student in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She has a Master of Science in Public Health from CUNY School of Public Health and studies access to, and effects of, abortion and contraception care. Rachel’s Emerging Scholars project uses data from the Midwest Abortion Pathways ...Read more >

Regan Moss, MPH (Columbia University) is an incoming PhD student at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. With a personal and professional history in and commitment to the South and community- and person-centered research, Regan will pursue original research and training that integrates social epidemiology, behavioral science, and policy/law perspectives and methodologies ...Read more >

Hayley V. McMahon, MSPH, CPH (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and a Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE). A proud first-generation scholar from southern Appalachia, Hayley holds an MSPH in ...Read more >