Anindita Dasgupta, PhD, MPH, Columbia University

Anindita Dasgupta is an Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Trained as a public health researcher, and social and behavioral scientist, Dr. Dasgupta’s research focuses on the intersection of gendered inequities of health as they negatively impact the sexual and reproductive health of women and birthing people who ...Read more >

Kandyce Brennan, DNP, MSN, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

After earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Duke University in 2016, I dedicated my career to improving women’s health. Motivated by a profound desire to impact women’s health outcomes on both structural and local levels, I completed a Master of Science in Nurse Midwifery and a Doctorate in Nursing Practice, specializing in midwifery, ...Read more >

Neha Bhardwaj, MD, MS, University of Chicago

My professional career trajectory changed since completing my C0mplex Family Planning fellowship in 2016. I entered the subspecialty with a strong desire to pursue abortion and graduate medical education. I started a Ryan Residency Training Program and became an Associate Residency Program Director. However, as I changed institutions, my desire to pursue graduate medical education ...Read more >

Gabriela Alvarado, MD, PhD, MSc, MPhil, MA, RAND

Dr. Gaby Alvarado is a physician and an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who focuses on maternal health and sexual and reproductive health using a reproductive justice framework. She obtained her doctorate in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and her medical degree from the University of Costa Rica. She also ...Read more >

Brooke Whitfield, MA, University of Texas at Austin

The field of family planning has historically focused on the uptake and continuation of hormonal contraceptive methods, specifically long-acting reversible methods. Our emphasis on the uptake and continuation of hormonal methods perpetuates the idea that these methods are superior to non-hormonal methods, regardless of individual preferences and circumstances, which can lead to stigmatization of non-hormonal ...Read more >

Madeline Smith, MPH, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Madeline Smith is a second-year medical student at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She received her Master of Public Health with a concentration in global health, and B.A. in Biology and Modern Middle Eastern Studies, from the University of Pennsylvania. While completing her MPH, Madeline worked full-time in Penn’s Department of ...Read more >

Alex Schulte, BSPH, BA, University of California, Berkeley

Alex Schulte is a second-year Health Policy PhD student at UC Berkeley and a Fellow in the Computational Social Science training program. She is also a Data Analyst at UCSF Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) and a Graduate Student Researcher at the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity (SHARE) program at UC Berkeley. She ...Read more >

Taylor Riley, PhD, MPH, University of North Carolina

“Taylor (she/her) is a postdoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina. She uses community-engaged and mixed methods research approaches to examine structural and policy determinants of reproductive health inequities. She received her PhD in epidemiology with a certificate in demography from the University of Washington and her MPH from ...Read more >

Monika Nayak, BA, University of California, Los Angeles

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, MPH, University of California, San Francisco

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 >