Lunch will be served at 12:00 pm in rm. 8417!
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision has created unprecedented challenges to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care access. Survey researchers face substantial challenges in evaluating the impacts of Dobbs, including the rapidly shifting policy landscape, participant recruitment, and high levels of abortion and miscarriage underreporting. While historically excluded populations (such as Black, disabled, and non-cisgender people) face heightened barriers to reproductive healthcare, surveys have historically failed to capture the experiences of these groups. The Reproductive Health Experiences and Access (RHEA) Survey seeks to address some of these challenges. Our 112-measure survey instrument will shed new light on individual experiences and preferences regarding abortion and contraceptive care among respondents in 13 focal states and the remainder of the United States. RHEA will also provide essential insights into how state responses to the Dobbs decision have affected health and wellbeing, particularly among marginalized populations.
As an economist and population health scientist, Dr. Tiffany Green’s mission is to understand the causes and consequences of racial/ethnic disparities in reproductive health. The biggest problem that keeps her up at night? The fact that black women, regardless of how much income or education they have, are more likely than any other racial/ethnic group to become sick and/or die from pregnancy-related complications. Similarly, black infants are more likely to be born too light, too soon, and die before they can celebrate their first birthdays. She believes strongly in tackling these problems from an evidence-based perspective and following the data wherever they lead—even if it makes me uncomfortable along the way. She applies methods from economics, demography, psychology, and health services research to document and unpack the sources of these disparities, and has published in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals (see some of my writing here). She is also committed to training the next generation of researchers to become better critical thinkers, better scientists, and more informed, engaged citizens.
