Diana Foster
University of California-San Francisco, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
In June 2022 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
abortion
Roe v. Wade
Dobbs
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2029
What they work on
- Compare long-term health and economic outcomes among people who had an abortion before a state ban, traveled to an out-of-state clinic, sought abortion outside the legal medical system, or carried to term, using multilevel regression on longitudinal surveys.
- Assess whether abortion-access helplines reduce harm by linking participants' helpline experiences to their decisions to keep seeking abortion, their success in obtaining one, and its timing.
- Conduct in-depth qualitative interviews with people affected by abortion bans, focusing on especially vulnerable groups, and integrate findings with survey data to understand their decisions and experiences.
More about the research
Wade, ending the federal right to abortion. Many states have since banned or limited abortion. These bans affect tens of millions of women of reproductive age, plus trans men and nonbinary people who can become pregnant. People in states with bans must now travel out of state, order abortion pills online to manage their own abortion, try less safe methods, or carry the pregnancy to term. The health and economic effects of this shift are unknown, and the years before Roe are a poor guide.
Why it matters
Policymakers currently have little direct evidence on what state abortion bans do to people's health and finances. By tracking outcomes among people who obtained abortions before or despite bans and those who could not, this work could inform state abortion policy. It could also guide harm-reduction strategies, such as helpline services, for pregnant people living in states without legal abortion.
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 California-San Francisco: 89 labs on PI Pages, $2.1B a year on research, 164 research doctorates a year.
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