Increasing access to abortion care within carceral facilities: Exploring the perceived needs and solutions for systems-impacted persons through the prison healthcare and community workforce
Abortion
Awarded 2024
Emerging Scholars in Family Planning
Regan Moss, MPH
Tulane University
$7,290

Regan Moss, MPH (Columbia University) is an incoming PhD student at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. With a personal and professional history in and commitment to the South and community- and person-centered research, Regan will pursue original research and training that integrates social epidemiology, behavioral science, and policy/law perspectives and methodologies to address the intersections of multiple (marginalized) identities and the social and structural forces that shape reproductive and maternal-child health outcomes and inequities in the U.S. She is particularly interested in research with systems-impacted women and communities, including mothers engaged in sex work, caregivers in prisons, reentry programs, and transitional housing, and those residing in rural areas/maternity care deserts. During her undergraduate degree, Regan participated in research on the reproductive, menstrual, and maternal mental health experiences of women in prison, jails, detention, and the sexual commerce industry. During her MPH program, she gained additional experience working with interdisciplinary mentors and teams to develop innovative, multi-level solutions for health systems and policy change and reduce maternal morbidity, mortality, and adverse reproductive health outcomes. During her PhD program, Regan now aspires to help build a student-led initiative focused on the family planning and reproductive care needs of system-impacted women across the region. Tulane and Louisiana are fertile ground to connect and coordinate such efforts. The proposed Society of Family Planning Emerging Scholars Award will support formative research on the pathways for abortion care provision among incarcerated women and birthing persons within U.S. prisons and jails to inform family planning care models and linkages across this understudied, complex ecosystem.