Samantha Truong, MD (she/her/ella) is an Assistant Professor at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and an academic generalist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center (BMC), who is devoted to compassionate and equitable care for marginalized populations, particularly forcibly displaced migrant communities. She completed her medical training at ...Read more >

I am a public health scholar with interdisciplinary training in behavioral science, epidemiology, and maternal and reproductive health, I earned my PhD in Behavioral Science and Health Education from Saint Louis University in May 2023. My academic and professional journey has addressed health disparities and reproductive injustice, particularly among historically excluded populations in both the ...Read more >

Dr. Gracia Sierra is an interdisciplinary researcher trained as an economist, sociologist, and demographer who investigates socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in population health outcomes. As a Data Scientist and Researcher at Resound Research for Reproductive Health, she applies experimental and quasi-experimental methods to survey and administrative data to study access to sexual and reproductive healthcare ...Read more >

I am an early-stage investigator and an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health. I worked in public health practice and am a trained population health researcher and social epidemiologist with substantive and methodological expertise in violence prevention. I have trained in Population Centers as a T32 Population Science ...Read more >

Dr. Francine Naputi is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and CHamoru Studies at the University of Guam, where her research is dedicated to incorporating indigenous sexual health epistemologies into reproductive health discussion as well as education resources for indigenous youth in the Pacific. Dr. Naputi’s work centers on creating culturally grounded sex education curricula ...Read more >

I am an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Rutgers University and a practicing board-certified women’s health nurse practitioner with over two decades of clinical and academic experience. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rutgers University in 2001, followed by a Master of Science in Nursing and a Doctorate in Education from the ...Read more >

Miranda Hill is a former health educator and service coordinator specializing in reproductive health and family planning service linkage among low-income, homeless, and other high-need populations in the U.S. south. In her research, she uses data-driven and community-engaged approaches to investigate the linkages between social networks and HIV service (dis)engagement among African American women who ...Read more >

Dr. Asha Hassan (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women’s Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She earned a PhD in Health Services Research and an MPH in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hassan’s research focuses on structural inequalities in family ...Read more >

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 >