Tuesday, May 28, 2024 10:30am to 12pm
About this Event
University Center , Santa Cruz, California 95064
Seminar Description: Dr. Ushma Upadhyay will describe the impact of the 2022 Dobbs Supreme Court decision on the provision of abortion care and other health outcomes in the United States. She will also discuss the two abortion cases currently at the Supreme Court, what’s at stake, and how the decisions may impact medication abortion and emergency care for pregnant people.
Bio: Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at University of California, San Francisco and a faculty member at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH). She is Co-Director of the University of California Global Health Institute’s Center for Gender and Health Justice. Dr. Upadhyay is a public health scientist trained in epidemiology and demography and has expertise in abortion safety, abortion access in the U.S., medication abortion, and state-level abortion restrictions. She is Principal Investigator of the California Home Abortion by Telehealth study which evaluates the safety, effectiveness, and acceptability of telehealth for abortion in 20 states. Dr. Upadhyay is also Co-Chair of #WeCount, a national study sponsored by the Society of Family Planning which seeks to track monthly abortion volume data by state to better understand the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on abortion access. Dr. Upadhyay's research interests also focus on measures of women's empowerment and assessing its influence on contraceptive use, abortion decisions and fertility. She earned a BA from American University, her MPH from Columbia University, and her PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
User Activity
No recent activity