Julie Maslowsky
University of Michigan, MI·Public Health & Epidemiology
State laws and policies shape whether people can get contraception, who is allowed to provide care, and how reproductive and maternal health services work. Researchers who want to study how these state differences affect health often run into scattered, incomplete data.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
sexual and reproductive health
maternal and child health
contraception
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2029
What they work on
- Compile state-level data on sexual and reproductive health factors, such as provider scope of practice and contraception access, for all 50 states and DC, using human-centered design with researchers to define consistent variables.
- Build a user-friendly online dashboard with ready-to-use data files and multivariable visualizations, refined through repeated user-experience testing with researchers.
- Publish methods guidance and promote the dashboard so researchers can rigorously analyze state-level factors linked to reproductive and maternal-child health outcomes.
More about the research
There is no single resource that tracks these factors across all states over time. This makes rigorous comparisons hard.
Why it matters
A reliable, free database of state reproductive health policies could let social, clinical, and public health scientists study how state factors such as contraception access and provider rules relate to health outcomes. Their findings could guide clinical care and the design of public health interventions to improve reproductive and maternal-child health across the United States.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of Michigan: 124 labs on PI Pages, $2.1B a year on research, 963 research doctorates a year.
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