The reproductive experiences and family-making practices of migrant dairy workers
Abortion and contraception
Awarded 2024
Emerging Scholars in Family Planning
Camille Collins Lovell, MPH
University of Massachusetts Amherst
$7,500

Camille Collins Lovell is a PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in the Community Health Education program. She received her MPH at Tulane University, was a fellow at the CDC’s Center for Global Health and worked internationally for 20 years on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including maternal health, HIV prevention and treatment, contraceptive access, safe abortion, and adolescent sexual health, throughout Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has expertise in qualitative research methods, narrative intervention, and community-based participatory approaches. Her current dissertation research explores the reproductive experiences of undocumented Latina dairy farmworkers, including the geographic, economic, legal, and other constraints they encounter in accessing contraceptive methods, abortion, and maternal health care in rural Vermont. Using an ethnographic approach, she hopes to understand family-making practices in the wider context of transnational family dynamics, women’s labor, and immigration policy. Her research applies the tenets of reproductive justice and hopes to contribute to the movement for the health and rights of undocumented immigrant families in the US.