Dr. Rachel Shin is a rising third-year resident at Cleveland Clinic’s Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency Program. She completed her MD at Virginia Commonwealth University, and first became interested in public health as a Duke Global Health Fellow in Geneva. Dr. Shin completed a Master of Public Health Degree at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public ...Read more >

Izidora (Izzie) Skračić is a PhD candidate in Maternal and Child Health, whose research focuses on reproductive health. As a member of the evaluation team of Delaware Contraceptive Access Now, her dissertation explores various facets of access to contraception. Additionally, Izidora teaches a 300-level course, “Unequal Families: Health, Wealth, Race, and Place in the U.S.,” ...Read more >

Connie Lu is a current resident OBGYN physician at Northwestern Memorial Hopsital and John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago, Illinois. She started her education at Indiana University, where she obtained a dual degree in both Neuroscience and Gender Studies. There, she completed an honors thesis in Gender Studies titled, “Faking it: ...Read more >

Laurenia Mangum is a doctoral candidate in the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh. Family planning is an effective way of preventing unplanned pregnancies among birthing people, while providing autonomy and freedom of choice of how to grow one’s family and options for contraception use or terminating unplanned pregnancies. There is a ...Read more >

Maya Manian is a PhD student at the University of California San Francisco where she is pursuing a degree in Sociology. Prior to joining UCSF, she received a JD from Harvard Law School. She has been a Visiting Professor at American University Washington College of Law, Howard University School of Law, and University of California ...Read more >

Rose is a National Library of Medicine Predoctoral Fellow and PhD candidate in Biomedical Informatics, focusing on Health & Clinical Informatics at Oregon Health & Science University, with an MS in Biostatistics from Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her current dissertation work combines her interests in women’s health, consumer and health ...Read more >

Mobolaji Ibitoye is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Ohio State University Institute for Population Research. Her multidisciplinary public health training includes a DrPH in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University, and an MPH with dual concentration in Behavioral Sciences/Health Education and Epidemiology from Saint Louis University. Her past research activities span a range of sexual and ...Read more >

Dana Johnson a PhD candidate in Public Policy and NICHD Predoctoral fellow at the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. As part of her dissertation research, Dana is investigating the safety, effectiveness, and acceptability of self-managed abortion using a misoprostol-alone medication abortion regimen in the US. This work is driven by ...Read more >

Angubeen Khan is a PhD student at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health studying Community Health Sciences and student affiliate with the California Center for Population Research. Angubeen’s research focuses on sexual and reproductive health of immigrant and migration-affected populations. Angubeen was the doctoral fellow for the UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive ...Read more >

Marlene Joannie Bewa is a doctoral student in Community and Family Health at the University of South Florida. Dr. Bewa’s project will explore how the current COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting society and affecting social, economic, political life as well as individuals’ health and wellbeing. There is no doubt that sexual and reproductive health and rights ...Read more >