Nina Tan, MD, University of Washington
As a primary care internal medicine (IM) resident with a focus on women’s health and family planning, Dr. Tan feels passionately about the essential role of primary care in providing abortion services, especially as legal abortion access continues to be dictated by restrictive policies. Her career goal is to improve primary care medication abortion access ...Read more >
Asha Hassan, MPH, Planned Parenthood North Central States
Asha Hassan is an early career Health Services Researcher and Epidemiologist. Asha completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in Gender and Women’s Studies with minors in global health and African studies in 2015. After graduating she moved to Nairobi, Kenya for a year to work as a research fellow ...Read more >
Elise Higgins, MA, University of Kansas
Elise is a fourth year PhD student at the University of Kansas and former lobbyist, organizer, and media spokesperson for Planned Parenthood. Her research is deeply informed by her experience of working against abortion stigma in the legislative and political process. Elise currently serves as the Vice President of the Kansas Abortion Fund, where her ...Read more >
Sara Johnsen, MPP, MA, University of California, Los Angeles
Sara is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA and a Trainee at the California Center for Population Research, and completed her MPP in social policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. Her dissertation uses mixed methods to investigate the policy, behavioral, and interactional mechanisms driving racial and socioeconomic ...Read more >
Laura Kirkpatrick, MD, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Laura is a third-year resident in Child Neurology at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh aiming to become a clinician-investigator focused on improving sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and young adults with neurologic conditions. Laura has a longstanding interest in family planning, including professional and volunteer commitments with the National Abortion Federation (NAF) Hotline ...Read more >
Priscilla Lopez, MPH, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
To help establish sexual and reproductive health (SRH) equity through early, consistent, and comprehensive sex education across all communities in the United States (US) is the long-term goal Priscilla has been working towards with each educational and professional experience. Sex education has typically rarely covered topics like LGBTQ healthcare, abortion, provider bias, among others. As ...Read more >
Jane Seymour, MPH, Ibis Reproductive Health
Jane Seymour is a doctoral student in epidemiology at Boston University and holds a Master in Public Health from the University of Pennsylvania. Jane currently works as a Senior Project Manager at Ibis Reproductive Health where she manages and leads qualitative and quantitative research to assess access to abortion and contraception in the United States ...Read more >
Gabrielle deFiebre, MPH, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Gabrielle deFiebre is a PhD student in Community Health and Health Policy at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She previously earned an MPH degree in Community Health Education from Hunter College and a BA from New College of Florida. Gabrielle currently works as the Associate Director of Research and Education ...Read more >
Keemi Ereme, MD, MPH, University of Illinois
Dr. Keemi Ereme is a second year OB/GYN resident at University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her medical degree at Howard University College of Medicine in 2019. She has also completed a Master of Public Health degree in Global Health Communication at The George Washington University. Dr. Ereme plans to pursue fellowship in complex ...Read more >
Zahra Goliaei, MD, MPH, University of California, Merced
This proposed study is part of the applicant’s doctoral dissertation. Prior to entering the United States, she worked as a physician in Iran, where she began engaging with women’s family planning challenges. After moving to the US, she worked on health outcomes of refugees and conducted workshops on pre-post-natal care and family planning, for pregnant ...Read more >