Dr. Tyriesa L. Howard is an assistant professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on socio-behavioral interventions to eradicate sexual, reproductive, and maternal health disparities that disproportionately impact Black women and adolescent girls living in the US. She is the director of the Fathers First Initiative at St. ...Read more >

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 >

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 >

My professional career trajectory changed since completing my Complex 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 >

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 >

Dr. Daniel Felipe Martín Suárez-Baquero is a Nurse Scientist an Assistant Professor in the department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing. Dr. Suárez-Baquero seeks to understand, through qualitative methods, the experiences, perspectives, and strategies related to midwifery and reproductive justice, shedding light on structural factors contributing ...Read more >

Dr. JaNelle M. Ricks is a public health behavioral scientist and health equity advocate with additional training and expertise in health communication and policy. Dr. Ricks is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion in the College of Public Health at the Ohio State University. She uses mixed-methods, with an ...Read more >

Dr. Mayra Pineda-Torres is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is an applied microeconomist who uses quasi-experimental methods and observational data to examine topics related to women’s and teenagers‘ welfare. In particular, she is interested in the health and economic consequences of family planning policies and ...Read more >

Cydney Murray, JD, is a Law and Policy Analyst at the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Cydney seeks to develop a body of research that examines the role and impact of doulas in abortion care through legal epidemiology methods within a Reproductive Justice framework. She earned ...Read more >

Dr. Lucrecia Mena-Meléndez is a first-generation Latina immigrant, scholar of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and family planning, and leader. She is passionate about advancing equity in abortion, family planning, and SRH in the US and Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly among minority populations. Her research broadly examines how social-demographic (eg, ethnoracial identity, rural-urban ...Read more >