Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). Originally from Atlanta, GA, she received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University. She concurrently completed a Master in Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Tucker Edmonds trained ...Read more >

Tosin Ariyo is a community health scientist and women’s health advocate dedicated to addressing health disparities in underserved communities. Her work is focused on facilitating health improvements that prioritize women’s health independent of their maternal status. As a Research Director at East Tennessee State University, Tosin leads the process evaluation of a statewide contraceptive access ...Read more >

Ifeyinwa Asiodu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She received a BSN from the University of Southern California,her MS and PhD from UCSF School of Nursing, and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois, at Chicago. The long-term ...Read more >

Melanie Baca is an Associate Professor and Family Medicine physician at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Baca is particularly invested in adolescent reproductive health, the prevention of unintended pregnancy, and health disparities related to these issues. Following residency, she contributed to the development of an Adolescent Medicine Fellowship focused on reproductive health within her ...Read more >

Marquitta Dorsey is an Assistant Professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work. She received her PhD in Social Welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Master’s of Social Work from the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, a Master’s of Business Administration from American Intercontinental University, ...Read more >

Dr. Desai’s work has focused on improving the sexual and reproductive health of communities, primarily in the US, at local and national levels. These efforts have included designing and evaluating community-based maternal health interventions, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to advance evidence-based policy reform on abortion provision, and contributing seminal evidence on immigrants’ use of abortion ...Read more >

Dr. Green is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Population Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research agenda focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in maternal and child health. She is particularly driven to understand why Black women, regardless of socioeconomic status, experience ...Read more >

Dr. Hardeman is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health & Racial Equity at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Management. She is a reproductive health equity researcher whose program of research applies the tools of population health science and health services research to elucidate ...Read more >

Dr. Agbemenu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the State University of New York, University at Buffalo. Her current research includes access to reproductive healthcare services for African immigrant and refugee women. Her vision for future leadership and enrichment of the science on family planning is to become a leading internationally ...Read more >

Dr. Tyler is the Executive Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) at the University of Chicago. She oversees research that addresses the social and structural determinants of adolescent sexual and reproductive health through design, narrative, play, and policy change. Her research interests focus on human centered ...Read more >