Sessions
Justice-Oriented Contraceptive Research: Examples and Opportunities
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM Thu
Dr. Subasri Narasimhan, PhD MPH, is a public health social scientist in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health. She specializes in sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, and intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Southeastern US. As an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE) her work employs mixed and multi-level methodologies, including community-based participatory research, knowledge justice, and reproductive justice practices, to study the impact of policy restrictions on abortion provision and contraceptive use on the health and well-being of people capable of pregnancy.
Currently, she is a Co-Principal Investigator on several studies focusing on reproductive health, birth care and support, and abortion, including the Teen and Loved Ones' Knowledge and Support of Dual Prevention Study (TALKS), the Abortion Bans Project, which studies state-level legislative debate on six-week abortion bans, and PROVIDA, which examines the provision of medication abortion implementation via telehealth.
She is a recipient of several honors including the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science KL2 Award, the National Institutes of Health Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health K12 Award, the Emory Center for Women's Excellence in Mentorship Award, the Society of Family Planning Emerging Scholar Award.