Anna Chatillon is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara concentrating on reproduction, race, gender, and intersectionality. Her research traces the connections among reproductive healthcare policy and provision, women’s organizing, and intersecting structures of marginalization. Prior to entering graduate school, Anna worked as the Director of Policy and Advocacy for ...Read more >

Subasri (Suba) Narasimhan completed her PhD in Community Health Sciences at the University of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health where she was a Bixby Doctoral Fellow, Child and Family Health Trainee, and a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Development Pre-Doctoral Trainee. Her MPH in Maternal and Child Health ...Read more >

Alexandra Calderon is a second year medical student at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. As a Spanish-speaking, first-generation Latina immigrant, Alexandra looks forward to becoming a clinician able to provide comprehensive health care, including reproductive health services, to underserved families. Alexandra completed her BA in English Literature at the California State University, ...Read more >

Medical assistants (MAs) have been largely overlooked in research on abortion providers. The proposed research narrows that gap by documenting the integral role MAs play in abortion care. MAs are a rapidly growing occupational group in healthcare and often come to abortion work without a prior ideological commitment to reproductive rights. Using ethnographic methods, I ...Read more >

In the US, 11% of reproductive age women report illicit or non-prescription drug use in the past month, with opioids accounting for a large proportion of this use. Among women with opioid use disorder (OUD), 86% of pregnancies are unintended. It has also been shown that women with OUD are less likely to use highly ...Read more >

Amidst widespread efforts to address the unique health needs of resettled refugees in the US, barriers to reproductive healthcare among refugee women remain understudied and poorly understood. As the national political climate becomes increasingly hostile to both refugee and women’s health, a qualitative study of this underserved, vulnerable population’s experience of reproductive healthcare is urgently ...Read more >

Women with opioid and other substance use disorders (SUDs) have an unmet need effective contraceptive methods and high rates of unintended pregnancy. These women often avoid traditional health care settings because of previous poor treatment by providers and fear of criminal justice or child welfare repercussions. This scholarly project seeks to address the clinical problem ...Read more >

Young adult women have higher rates of sexually transmitted infection (STI), unintended pregnancy, and abortion then their older counterparts. This age group also disproportionately experiences cost-related barriers to care. Confidentiality concerns related to insurer practices may obstruct insurance use for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services by women covered as dependents under a parent’s insurance ...Read more >

Unintended pregnancy is a public health concern. Nearly half of all pregnancies in the US are unintended, with African American women experiencing the most unintended pregnancies. In Wisconsin, 65% of pregnancies resulting in live births to Black mothers are unintended, compared to 38% of pregnancies overall. Several state and federally funded preconception interventions have been ...Read more >

This research project seeks to understand the reproductive healthcare needs of undergraduate students, determine the role that student health services currently provides in access to information and resources, and examine how state narratives regarding reproductive healthcare influence campus services at two large public universities: The University of South Florida and the University of Kentucky. Over ...Read more >