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 >

Alice Cartwright is a doctoral student in Maternal and Child Health in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a predoctoral trainee with the Carolina Population Center. Alice received her MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Alice spent almost ...Read more >

Katie Donnelly is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University. Her project will explore how long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) use has increased dramatically in recent years, with a nearly 5-fold increase between 2002 and 2012. One particular form of LARC, levonorgestrel intrauterine devices (IUDs), is quickly becoming the favored choice among ...Read more >

Rachel Dyer is a therapist, scholar, and activist. She earned both her BS (Psychology, Neurobiology) and MS (Counseling) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she remains a student today – now working to earn her PhD in Counseling Psychology. Broadly, Rachel’s scholarship examines the intersection of mental health and human reproduction, with the aim of ...Read more >

Andréa Becker (she/they) is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. As a medical sociologist, Andréa asks research questions regarding gender, sexuality, and reproduction. She is particularly interested in contested medical practices, or elements of health and wellness imbued with polarizing gendered meaning, such as abortion, sterilization procedures, and self-managed reproductive healthcare. ...Read more >