Shreya Nagendra (she/her) is a final-year doctoral candidate pursuing a Behavioral Science and Health Education degree at Saint Louis University, St. Louis (Missouri). She has a Master’s in Public Health and a strong background in quantitative and qualitative research methods. Shreya’s passion for sexual and reproductive health research was ignited during her internship and Clinical ...Read more >

Paige Logan is a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her MPH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has worked on abortion and reproductive health advocacy efforts at the state, national, and international levels. She also currently serves as a Policy and Advocacy Advisor ...Read more >

Fatimah Lawal is a doctoral student in public health at Purdue University. Her research centers on understanding and eliminating barriers to high-quality reproductive health care among marginalized and minoritized populations, with a specific focus on access to contraception. Born and raised in Nigeria before pursing doctoral training in the US, Fatimah garnered global experience working ...Read more >

Elizabeth Kravitz is a second-year obstetrics and gynecology resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She is pursuing a career in Family Planning with a particular interest in research that shapes policy, with a focus in understanding disparities to access and care. This project is designed to document the lived experience of activists ...Read more >

The proposed mixed-methods research project aims to evaluate the quality of person-centered contraceptive care delivery at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in Illinois. These centers are committed to serving a racially diverse patient population in need of affordable, high-quality care through person-centered practices. Unpublished preliminary data have indicated that almost 30% of the patient population ...Read more >

Lauren Gerchow is a PhD candidate at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She received her bachelors in nursing from the University of San Francisco and her masters in nursing informatics from the University of Colorado. Lauren is a public health nurse working with the Nurse-Family Partnership program since 2013 in Brooklyn, New ...Read more >

Kathryn Crofton received her MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and is currently a second-year obstetrics and gynecology resident at Albany Medical Center in upstate New York. Her research interests include medical education and improving patient experience and access to reproductive healthcare. Her proposed project is the development of an educational video ...Read more >

Rylee Beltran is a current student in the department of Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa College of Public Health. At the College of Public Health, she is a Maternal and Child Health Scholar in a 5-year Undergraduate-to-Graduate program. Rylee received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology with honors from Grinnell College ...Read more >

Elizabeth M. Anderson (she/hers) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington and a NICHD Predoctoral Fellow. She holds master’s degrees in sociology and applied statistics. As a medical sociologist, she uses mixed methods to investigate how social and institutional forces shape both the provision and utilization of health services, ...Read more >

Access to contraception is a fundamental human right, but incomplete knowledge and counseling around contraceptive methods, specifically side effects, can impede informed decision-making and contribute to adverse health outcomes. Traditional contraceptive counseling often fails to meet people’s needs, leading them to seek information from alternative sources such as the internet and social networking sites (SNSs) ...Read more >