This study addresses a methodological weakness of studying population-wide interventions on outcomes of sexual reproductive health and well-being: inefficient consideration of the state policy environment. Current approaches to including the state policy environment in analyses are crude, incomplete, or irrelevant to family planning or reproductive health research. Policies do not act in a vacuum; they ...Read more >

Rachel Murro (she/her) is a PhD Student in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She has a Master of Science in Public Health from CUNY School of Public Health and studies access to, and effects of, abortion and contraception care. Rachel’s Emerging Scholars project uses data from the Midwest Abortion Pathways ...Read more >

Regan Moss, MPH (Columbia University) is an incoming PhD student at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. With a personal and professional history in and commitment to the South and community- and person-centered research, Regan will pursue original research and training that integrates social epidemiology, behavioral science, and policy/law perspectives and methodologies ...Read more >

Hayley V. McMahon, MSPH, CPH (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and a Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE). A proud first-generation scholar from southern Appalachia, Hayley holds an MSPH in ...Read more >

This qualitative research study aims to explore the roles of abortion doulas in providing care and their impact on women’s abortion outcomes. Through 20 semi-structured interviews with individuals who have utilized the services of abortion doulas, the study seeks to document and analyze the specific support provided by these doulas and the resulting effects on ...Read more >

I am a resident physician in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. As a medical student at The Ohio State College of Medicine, I volunteered as abortion doula at our local Planned Parenthood. Here, I witnessed the negative impact of the Dobbs decision firsthand. Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, my goal ...Read more >

Mikaela (Mika) Koch graduated with Honors from Stanford University with a major in Human Biology, concentration in Global Women’s Health and Minor in Human Rights. She subsequently spent several years working for an international nonprofit providing high fidelity obstetric and neonatal emergency simulation and team training in limited resource settings before starting medical school at ...Read more >

This research aims to investigate the impact of the overturning of Roe v. Wade on health outcomes among pregnant women with private insurance, specifically looking at the rates of ectopic pregnancy, pulmonary hypertension, and pre-eclampsia. Utilizing a dataset spanning from 2012 to 2022, the study focuses on identifying trends and deviations in these health outcomes ...Read more >

Riley Curtin, MD, is an incoming medical resident in the West Virginia University Department of Family Medicine. Riley was selected as a Rural Scholar for an enhanced rural practice training experience during medical school and plans to practice rural primary care medicine with a specialization in women’s reproductive health services. The intent of the proposed ...Read more >

Anna is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant with the Center for Policy and Democracy at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver). She was named a 2023-2024 Equity and Inclusion Fellow by the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Her research agenda focuses on reproductive health policy, ...Read more >