Workshop: Why is it Challenging to Measure Reproductive Health Equity and What are Promising Practices?

The National Academies Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society will host an all-day workshop on November 21, 2024, addressing the integration of sexual and reproductive health considerations in clinical research, alongside an exploration of challenges and opportunities related to data resources and validation. The workshop aims to foster discussions on promoting research that more effectively incorporates considerations of sexual and reproductive health across the entirety of the reproductive lifespan and will focus on the feasibility of getting research done.

Agenda

  • Welcome
    • Claire Brindis, DrPH, MPH, Distinguished Professor, Emerita Director, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies; University of California, San Francisco; and Chair, Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society, National Academies of Sciences Engineering, and Medicine
  • Opening Remarks—Framing the Day
    • Tracy Weitz, PhD, MPA, Professor at American University; Workshop Planning Committee Chair
  • Panel 1: Advances in Measuring Reproductive Equity
    • Anitra Beasley, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic and Obstetrics Specialists, Baylor College of Medicine (Moderator)
    • Andrew Anderson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    • Asha Hassan, PhD MPH, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women’s Health, University of Minnesota Medical School
    • Heidi Moseson, PhD MPH, Senior Research Scientist, Ibis Reproductive Health
    • May Sudhinaraset, PhD, Professor in Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Presentation 1: Research on the Impact of the Dobbs Decision: A Review of the Literature
    • Jennifer O’Donnell, ScD, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, Society of Family Planning
  • Panel 2: The Challenges of Measuring Changing Rates of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
    • Justin Lappen, Section Head – Maternal Fetal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Associate Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University (Moderator)
    • Caitlin Myers, PhD, John G. McCullough Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
    • Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    • Cynthia Lebron, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Public Health, School of Nursing and Health Studies
  • Presentation 2: Applying a Reproductive Justice Lens: A Core Component of Research on Reproductive Equity
    • Anu Manchikanti Gómez, PhD, MSc, Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare
  • Panel 3: Understanding Who, How, and Why Individuals Can and Cannot Access Abortions
    • Laura Lindberg, PhD, Professor; Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice Concentration Director; Rutgers School of Public Health (Moderator)
    • Tiffany Green, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Caitlin Gerdts, PhD, MHS, Vice President for Research, Ibis Reproductive Health
    • Jane Seymour, PhD, MPH, Research Scientist, Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Panel 4: Difficulties Collecting Data on Reproductive Equity post-Dobbs
    • Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, Impact Fellow, University of California, Berkely School of Public Health and Adjunct Professor, University of South Florida School of Public Health (Moderator)
    • Lee Hasselbacher, JD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
    • Jake Laperruque, JD, Deputy Director, Security and Surveillance Project, Center for Democracy & Technology
    • Angad Singh, MD, Assistant Professor and Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer, University of Washington
    • Amanda Stevenson, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder; Director of Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Closing Remarks
    • Michele Bratcher Goodwin, JD, Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Policy; Co-Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law