Dr. Keemi Ereme is a second year OB/GYN resident at University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her medical degree at Howard University College of Medicine in 2019. She has also completed a Master of Public Health degree in Global Health Communication at The George Washington University. Dr. Ereme plans to pursue fellowship in complex ...Read more >

This proposed study is part of the applicant’s doctoral dissertation. Prior to entering the United States, she worked as a physician in Iran, where she began engaging with women’s family planning challenges. After moving to the US, she worked on health outcomes of refugees and conducted workshops on pre-post-natal care and family planning, for pregnant ...Read more >

Amy Elizabeth Alterman is a Ph.D. Candidate in Culture and Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research employs performance as an analytic framework in order to explore the sociocultural and experiential elements of reproductive and sexual health access. Simultaneously, her work investigates the potential of the performing arts to advance health equity. ...Read more >

Adaobi Anakwe is a second-year doctoral student at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri where she is pursuing a degree in Epidemiology with a focus on maternal, child and family health under the supervision of Dr. Pamela Xaverius. Prior to joining the College for Public Health and Social Justice at SLU, she graduated with a ...Read more >

Samantha Auerbach is a sexual and reproductive health Nurse Practitioner and PhD student in Nursing at the University at Buffalo. Sam is a clinician at Planned Parenthood, where she has developed clinical expertise in contraceptive and abortion care. Since starting her doctoral program, she has been working with SFP members Gretchen Ely and Kafuli Agbemenu ...Read more >

Comfort Olorunsaiye is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Arcadia University. She holds a Doctorate in Health Services Research and a Master of Public Health degree with concentration in Maternal and Child Health. This award will support her research in understanding the perceived risks and impact of unintended pregnancy on the contraceptive behaviors of ...Read more >

Goleen Samari is an Assistant Professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Samari’s research focuses on disparities at the intersections of migration, race/ethnicity, and gender and sexual and reproductive health (SRH). She is a public health researcher and demographer and one of a ...Read more >

Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). Originally from Atlanta, GA, she received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University. She concurrently completed a Master in Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Tucker Edmonds trained ...Read more >

Faith Fletcher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. As a social scientist committed to health equity research among women, her research program is grounded in methodological and theoretical approaches from the fields of public health, bioethics, and behavioral science and ...Read more >

Tosin Ariyo is a community health scientist and women’s health advocate dedicated to addressing health disparities in underserved communities. Her work is focused on facilitating health improvements that prioritize women’s health independent of their maternal status. As a Research Director at East Tennessee State University, Tosin leads the process evaluation of a statewide contraceptive access ...Read more >