Ruvani Jayaweera has focused her career as an epidemiologist on documenting and evaluating interventions aimed at increasing access to information and support on self-managed abortion. During her time as a researcher at Ibis Reproductive Health, she has prioritized a research model that centers the needs of individuals and communities who stand to benefit most from ...Read more >

Jusung Lee is a health services researcher and his scholarly work focuses on the intersection of health policy and individuals’ health behaviors and health status, with an emphasis on racial minorities and underserved populations. Previously, he served as a Research Associate at East Tennessee State University where he was involved in women’s health research on ...Read more >

As a first-generation Latina immigrant indigenous scholar, Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice from an equity and inclusion perspective in order to reduce inequities in health access and outcomes. She is trained as a medical sociologist and brings expertise in conducting research with Latinx populations, community-based-participatory-research (CBPR), and ...Read more >

April J. Bell is a community health researcher, social epidemiologist, and health equity advocate dedicated to improving the sexual and reproductive health outcomes of historically marginalized adolescents. Dr. Bell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Her research ...Read more >

Dr. Sneha Challa is a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC San Francisco. Her research focuses on understanding the interpersonal and normative influences on young people’s reproductive health and well-being. Her research interests stem from her Indian-American upbringing that involved balancing conflicting cultural expectations, particularly in the arena of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Sneha pursued a ...Read more >

Dr. Nisha Verma is an obstetrician-gynecologist, complex family planning specialist, and clinician researcher committed to improving access to abortion care in the U.S. Southeast, which is her home. She was born in North Carolina to Indian immigrant parents, and received her Bachelor’s in Biology and Anthropology and her medical degree from the University of North ...Read more >

Isabel Muñoz is a second-year PhD student in Epidemiology at the University of California- Berkeley (UCB) and a research manager for the University of California – Advancing New Standards In Reproductive Health’s, Attitude and Decision-making After Pregnancy (ADAPT) study. After interning for Ibis Reproductive Health, Isabel knew she wanted to continue conducting research on sexual ...Read more >

Xanthia Tucker is a resident physician in combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. She plans to become a primary care doctor who offers full-scope family planning. Prior to pursuing medicine, she was a comparative literature major, freelance writer, baker, and health coach at a county hospital. Tucker chose to become a ...Read more >

Dr. Laura Swan is a scholar who is committed to acting as a change agent for social justice and health equity. She has clinical experience as a hospital social worker and received her doctorate in social work from Virginia Commonwealth University. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her work is focused on ...Read more >

Miriam Singer is a third-year student at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her passions include reproductive justice, reproductive health, and medical education. She recently co-developed an innovative, interactive, case-based Reproductive Justice curriculum covering systems-level disparities in family planning. This curriculum is now mandatory for every HMS student and will soon be available to all educators and ...Read more >