I am an assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale University School of Public Health. I have expertise in community-engaged research, qualitative methods, adolescent health, and intervention adaptation and implementation. The overall goal of the proposed research is to explore the process of sexual and reproductive health communication between grandparents, ...Read more >

Dr. Anjanique Mariquit Rosete Lu (she/they/siya) is an assistant professor in the Boston Medical Center Ob-Gyn Department, where she specializes in complex family planning and holds a master’s degree in health policy. Dr. Rosete Lu is a physician-researcher devoted to centering historically marginalized populations’ perspectives, developing equitable yet tailored reproductive healthcare, and supporting clinician counseling ...Read more >

Angubeen Khan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (UM) Dearborn. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Global Health and Master of Public Health in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and her PhD in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. ...Read more >

I am a physician-scientist with dual training in pediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry, and formal training in health services research. My work focuses on improving access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care for adolescents, particularly those with psychiatric conditions who face structural barriers to receiving timely and confidential services. My research seeks to ...Read more >

This Changemakers in Family Planning Award supports the development of Subasri Narasimhan, PhD, MPH who serves as the Research Director for the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy (CRHLP) at the UCLA School of Law. She plans to strengthen the intersections of public health and medicine and of law and policy, by documenting, evaluating, ...Read more >

Erinma Ukoha, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Ukoha’s research interests and advocacy work focus on nonpunitive approaches to substance use in pregnancy, decriminalization of pregnancy, and addressing racial inequities in reproductive care through community-led ...Read more >

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My work sits at the intersection of family planning services, racial disparities in maternal health, and implementation science. My experience conducting contraception services research in ...Read more >

Jessica L. Dozier, PhD, MPH, is a population health scientist and social and behavioral researcher whose interdisciplinary training spans global health, sexual and reproductive health, and women’s and gender studies. Dr. Dozier earned her PhD in public health from Johns Hopkins University and completed a President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she ...Read more >

My dissertation research examines reproductive decision-making among youth in foster care, focusing on contraception access, pregnancy recognition, and abortion decision-making. Youth in foster care experience disproportionately high rates of adolescent pregnancy, yet existing research provides limited insight into how they access reproductive healthcare or make decisions once pregnancy occurs. This gap is especially important because ...Read more >

The study explores how Spanish-speaking grantees of the Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF) experience abortion care within a rapidly shifting policy and immigration landscape. Although Illinois is recognized as a state with strong abortion protections, emerging post-Dobbs research shows that patients, particularly Spanish-speaking individuals, immigrants, and those traveling from out of state, continue to face structural ...Read more >