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 >

Dr. Rachel Logan is a public health researcher dedicated to improving sexual/reproductive health care experiences and outcomes in multiply marginalized communities. Her work seeks to mitigate and eliminate healthcare-related harm by addressing mistrust and disrespect, especially among those racialized as Black. She has used critical theories and reproductive justice in her work—a human rights-based perspective ...Read more >

Tuyet Mai Hoang is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). During her graduate training, she was a recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Predoctoral Fellowship for Minority Health from 2017 to 2019 for her clinical work in addressing mental health disparities for Communities ...Read more >

Sofia Jawed-Wessel is currently an Associate Professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha in the School of Health and Kinesiology and the Co-Director of the Midlands Sexual Health Research Collaborative (MSHRC). She holds a PhD in Health Behavior and a Master of Public Health, both from the School of Public Health at Indiana University. Dr. ...Read more >

Ruvani Jayaweera has focused her career as an epidemiologist on documenting and evaluating interventions aimed at increasing access to information and support on self-managed abortion. During her time as a researcher at Ibis Reproductive Health, she has prioritized a research model that centers the needs of individuals and communities who stand to benefit most from ...Read more >

Jusung Lee is a health services researcher and his scholarly work focuses on the intersection of health policy and individuals’ health behaviors and health status, with an emphasis on racial minorities and underserved populations. Previously, he served as a Research Associate at East Tennessee State University where he was involved in women’s health research on ...Read more >

As a first-generation Latina immigrant indigenous scholar, Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice from an equity and inclusion perspective in order to reduce inequities in health access and outcomes. She is trained as a medical sociologist and brings expertise in conducting research with Latinx populations, community-based-participatory-research (CBPR), and ...Read more >

April J. Bell is a community health researcher, social epidemiologist, and health equity advocate dedicated to improving the sexual and reproductive health outcomes of historically marginalized adolescents. Dr. Bell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Her research ...Read more >

Dr. Sneha Challa is a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC San Francisco. Her research focuses on understanding the interpersonal and normative influences on young people’s reproductive health and well-being. Her research interests stem from her Indian-American upbringing that involved balancing conflicting cultural expectations, particularly in the arena of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Sneha pursued a ...Read more >