Dr. Desai’s work has focused on improving the sexual and reproductive health of communities, primarily in the US, at local and national levels. These efforts have included designing and evaluating community-based maternal health interventions, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to advance evidence-based policy reform on abortion provision, and contributing seminal evidence on immigrants’ use of abortion ...Read more >

Dr. Green is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Population Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research agenda focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in maternal and child health. She is particularly driven to understand why Black women, regardless of socioeconomic status, experience ...Read more >

Dr. Hardeman is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health & Racial Equity at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Management. She is a reproductive health equity researcher whose program of research applies the tools of population health science and health services research to elucidate ...Read more >

Dr. Agbemenu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the State University of New York, University at Buffalo. Her current research includes access to reproductive healthcare services for African immigrant and refugee women. Her vision for future leadership and enrichment of the science on family planning is to become a leading internationally ...Read more >

Dr. Tyler is the Executive Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) at the University of Chicago. She oversees research that addresses the social and structural determinants of adolescent sexual and reproductive health through design, narrative, play, and policy change. Her research interests focus on human centered ...Read more >

Dr. Swartz is an Assistant Professor of Nursing, a clinical researcher in family planning, and a practicing Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Her research is designed to be directly translated into clinical practice. She is an emerging scholar in adolescent family planning who is advancing the field through translational research in ...Read more >

Dr. Sudhinaraset is an Assistant Professor in Community Health Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on the reproductive health equity of women, girls, and immigrant populations globally and in the US. Her vision is to bridge her two current areas of expertise: the (mis)treatment of women accessing reproductive health ...Read more >

In 2011, approximately 1.1 million abortions were performed in the US, and 333,964 of these abortions were performed at Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) affiliates. PPFA instated new restrictions on intravenous sedation eligibility during surgical abortion. As of March 2015, affiliates can no longer offer sedation to women with a BMI >45 and women ...Read more >

Objectives: This study explored the meaning of abortion work to providers, how providers experience and manage stigmatization of their work, and how these experiences and stigma management strategies differ across providers by clinic type, clinic, work role and individuals. Methods: Data were collected through qualitative observation of clinic settings, in-depth interviews with providers, and quantitative ...Read more >

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH), is an educational content domain at the intersection of health, illness, culture, ethics, and politics, and crucially important for patient care. It is widely recognized as affecting all aspects of health and well-being, and knowledge about it among providers, makes it a growing, but unmet, priority for the healthcare workforce. ...Read more >