Jenny Higgins

Credentials: Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Email: jenny.a.higgins@wisc.edu

Address:
3414 Sterling Hall
475 N. Charter Street
Madison, WI 53706

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Curriculum Vitae

Jenny Higgins is the Bissell Professor of Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she also directs the Division of Reproductive and Population Health. Higgins leads the UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (www.core.wisc.edu), an interdisciplinary research initiative that focuses on abortion, contraception, and other aspects of reproductive autonomy in Wisconsin and beyond. Several CDE faculty and trainees are involved in CORE’s research and community. While much of Higgins’s scholarship has focused on fertility, pregnancy ambivalence, sexuality, and contraceptive use, recent research focuses more squarely on the role of abortion restrictions in shaping people’s health and well-being. You can learn more at jennyhiggins.net.

CDE Research Area Affiliations:

Fertility, Families & Households; Health & the Life Course; Demography of Inequality; Biodemography; Spatial & Environmental Demography; Fertility, Health & the Life Course

Selected Publication:

Seymour, Jane W., Jenny A. Higgins, and Sarah CM Roberts. “What attributes of abortion care affect people’s decision-making? Results from a discrete choice experiment.” Contraception 131 (2024): 110327.