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 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 (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 >

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 >