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 partnerships. Dr. Ukoha earned her medical degree and Master of Public Health from Northwestern University. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco and maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at Columbia University. She is also board-certified in Complex Family Planning and is passionate about physician advocacy and leveraging evidence to create policy change. She has developed an interdisciplinary body of work examining how carcerality in care and state surveillance function as reproductive injustices and forms of racialized oppression, particularly in marginalized communities. Her proposed research seeks to explore the lived experiences of Black birthing individuals who are subjective to punitive perinatal substance use practices and family policing system involvement (i.e., child protective services) and how these experiences shape their contraceptive autonomy, abortion access, pregnancy intentions, and reproductive healthcare engagement. With career development support, Dr. Ukoha will gain additional skills and mentorship in community-based participatory research, qualitative and mixed-methods research methodologies, and innovative storytelling research approaches. Through this work, she hopes to center the narratives of those most impacted to inform person-centered care models, policy reform, and legislative advocacy and advance just and equitable reproductive care.