This SFP Changemaker Award supports the development of Lasha Clarke, PhD, MPH as a leading scholar in justice-centered family planning research. Dr. Clarke is a reproductive health equity researcher committed to reimagining how the field understands, studies, and supports people’s full reproductive lives. Her work is grounded in a reproductive life course framework that bridges ...Read more >

I graduated with my Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology from Fordham University and completed my postdoctoral training in Quantitative Psychology at the University of Michigan. My research examines puberty, a critical biopsychosocial transition that shapes cognition, health, and wellbeing in complex ways. I use a range of methods to understand the effect of puberty on ...Read more >

Nafeesa Andrabi is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan and the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research. Dr. Andrabi is a mixed-methods social scientist with expertise in demography, medical sociology, and social epidemiology. Her paradigmatic research on the reproductive and maternal health of newcomers ...Read more >

Dr. Adaobi Anakwe (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. Her research examines the effects of intersecting roles/identities, social, structural, and political determinants on Black men’s transition to fatherhood and health outcomes using culturally grounded quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches. She is ...Read more >

I completed fellowship training in both maternal fetal medicine and medical genetics and am currently an assistant professor and maternal fetal medicine fellowship program director at Baylor College of Medicine in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. My clinical practice is primarily at a safety net hospital in a large urban medical center. Both my ...Read more >

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization ended the federally protected right to abortion established in 1973’s Roe v Wade decision. As a result, many states ended existing protections for abortion. Although all pre-Dobbs abortion restrictions included medical exceptions, six post-Dobbs state policies have no health exceptions ...Read more >

This bridge funding request will support the completion of a terminated NIH-funded study originally funded by the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K12 program. The study, originally titled, Black Girls Matter: Building a Culture of Health around Sexual and Reproductive Health, uses participatory methods to explore how Black adolescent girls and their ...Read more >

Research on abortion and contraception often excludes transgender, nonbinary, and intersex (TNBI) people due to gender-based eligibility criteria and survey instruments that misclassify or deter their participation. These inaccurate methods result in low TNBI enrollment, biased data, and high dropout contributing to uninformed providers and poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. As access to ...Read more >

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services are integral to the wellbeing of individuals and communities. However, societal dynamics of power and oppression pattern access to these services, presenting disproportionate barriers to younger people, BIPOC individuals, those with disabilities, individuals who are transgender or gender-nonconforming (TGNC), and people of lower socioeconomic status. One exacerbating factor for ...Read more >

Halina Yee, MD is currently the first year Complex Fmaily Planning Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She obtained her undergraduate degree from UCLA in Physiological Sciences, and obtained her medical degree from the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the ...Read more >