Alice Cartwright is a doctoral student in Maternal and Child Health in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a predoctoral trainee with the Carolina Population Center. Alice received her MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Alice spent almost ...Read more >

Katie Donnelly is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University. Her project will explore how long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) use has increased dramatically in recent years, with a nearly 5-fold increase between 2002 and 2012. One particular form of LARC, levonorgestrel intrauterine devices (IUDs), is quickly becoming the favored choice among ...Read more >

Andréa Becker (she/they) is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. As a medical sociologist, Andréa asks research questions regarding gender, sexuality, and reproduction. She is particularly interested in contested medical practices, or elements of health and wellness imbued with polarizing gendered meaning, such as abortion, sterilization procedures, and self-managed reproductive healthcare. ...Read more >

Tyshaneka Saffold is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden. Dr. Saffold’s program of research focuses on pregnancy prevention and family planning decision-making among adolescents with consideration for social determinants of health. Dr. Saffold has been a nurse for over 18 years, with clinical expertise in the areas of adolescent health, community/population health, ...Read more >

Andreia Alexander is an emergency medicine physician and public health researcher who specializes in qualitative methods and sexual and reproductive health. She earned her BS in Health Science Education from the University of Florida where she was first introduced to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) promotion. She then earned a Master of Public Health from ...Read more >

Bianca Allison is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a primary care pediatrician in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine with a clinical focus on adolescent medicine and contraception. She is also completing a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Primary Care Research Fellowship (funded ...Read more >

Dr. Tania Maria Caballero is a pediatrician and clinician scientist committed to improving contraceptive access for uninsured immigrant mothers through innovative solutions in pediatric primary care. Dr. Caballero completed her general pediatrics residency at University of Rochester, NY and a Master of Health Science (MHS) from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Over the past ...Read more >

Adrienne Ghorashi, JD is a Program Manager at the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Ms. Ghorashi is passionate about building multidisciplinary, open access, and community-engaged research that examines the role of laws and policies in creating or mitigating structural barriers to equitable abortion access through a Reproductive ...Read more >

Jennifer James is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Health and Aging, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Bioethics program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. James is a qualitative researcher and Black Feminist scholar whose research lies at the intersection of race, gender and health, with a ...Read more >

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the rapid implementation of innovations to reduce contact between patients and providers, including providing medication abortions without prior clinical exams or ultrasounds. The No-Test Medication Abortion (NTMA) study team expeditiously formed a cohesive working group and created infrastructure to collect data on patients receiving this model of care. Similarly other service ...Read more >