Dr. Cassondra Marshall is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health program at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, Dr. Marshall was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research and received training in delivery science research. Dr. Marshall ...Read more >

Dr. Madera is the Senior Project Manager and Research Fellow for Project SANA (The Self-managed Abortion Needs Assessment Project), which examines self-managed abortion across the US. She is also a multimedia historian, and the founder and director of The Abortion Diary, a transnational, transmedia story-sharing project that elucidates people’s real experiences with abortion, and challenges ...Read more >

Dr. Luna is an Associate Professor of Sociology (and Feminist Studies by courtesy) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her contributions to the field of family planning include writing key pieces in the burgeoning area of reproductive justice, which draws attention to rights to not have children (e.g., access to contraception, voluntary childlessness), rights ...Read more >

Dr. Littlejohn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. Her current research explores the cultural and institutional factors that affect women’s contraceptive decision-making. She is working on a book titled Just Get on the Pill: Gender, Compulsory Birth Control, and Reproductive Injustice that uses interviews with women to ...Read more >

The mentorship of medical students is vital to the future of family planning research, advocacy and training the next generation of abortion providers. Most previous publications have focused on a clinical family planning curriculum for medical students in their third and fourth years of medical school. In this mid-career mentorship project, I will focus on ...Read more >

The training and research activities proposed in this Junior Investigator Career Development Award will expand my research program in reproductive health for incarcerated women and set the stage for future grants. I will survey a representative sample of prison and jail systems across the US to prospectively report the aggregate number of pregnant women, abortions, ...Read more >

I seek a Midcareer Mentoring Award to achieve my long-term career objectives: (1) reduce unintended pregnancy through interventions that enhance safe contraceptive health care delivery and improve access for disparate populations and (2) foster a cadre of research-scientists working to enhance family planning services in primary care settings. Since 2006, I have mentored 37 trainees. ...Read more >

Objectives: To assess late presentation for care, gestational age, and disparities in traveling for care in Mexico City’s public abortion program, called ILE. To replicate a recent publication (Koch et al) purporting to show that restrictive abortion laws are associated with reduced maternal mortality in Mexico. Methods: We extracted data from clinical charts and used ...Read more >

The recommended treatment for ongoing pregnancy following medical abortion is usually suction curettage. Limited published data demonstrate that additional misoprostol can successfully terminate ongoing pregnancy, but there is no published literature on the repeat use of a combined mifepristone-misoprostol regimen. This randomized placebo-controlled trial seeks to assess the effectiveness of a repeat course of 200 ...Read more >

Objectives: To date, there has been no research on the abortion experiences of Punjabi women in Canada. Based on registry data, available research focuses solely on sex-selective abortion in immigrant populations. Our study aimed to explore and give voice to Punjabi women’s abortion experience in Ontario (ON) and British Columbia (BC). Methods: We conducted four ...Read more >