Abstract: The US Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision reshaped the landscape of abortion and reproductive healthcare access in general. Importantly, even prior to Dobbs, historically excluded populations (e.g., Black, disabled, and non-cisgender people) experienced the steepest barriers to care. However, studying the impacts of Dobbs on reproductive equity is challenging due to unprecedented levels of government-initiated data censorship and because family planning researchers have largely failed to prioritize the perspectives of marginalized populations.
In this seminar, Dr. Green will discuss how researchers are assessing the impacts of Dobbs on reproductive equity using a groundbreaking new national study, the Reproductive Health Experiences and Access Survey (RHEA). RHEA (N=50,000) includes comprehensive information on gender, disability, and race/ethnicity and focuses on state- and time-specific barriers to high-quality reproductive healthcare. In doing so, RHEA can support research that elevates Dobbs’ impacts on the unique experiences of historically excluded populations.
Bio: Tiffany Green is an Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a nationally recognized economist, population health scientist, and science communicator whose mission is to reduce and eliminate racial/ethnic inequities in reproductive health. Her primary research agenda is motivated by a persistent unsolved puzzle: how and why Black people experience the worst reproductive health access and outcomes of any racial/ethnic group—and what innovative solutions might ameliorate these persistent inequities. Dr. Green is dedicated to making complex issues accessible to policymakers, the public, and the next generation of clinicians and researchers. Dr. Green also developed “Race in American Obstetrics and Gynecology”, one of the first US medical education courses to address the role of race in the development of American obstetrics and gynecology.
