Professor, UCSF Dept of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Email: carole.joffe@ucsf.edu
Twitter: @carolejoffe
Topics of Expertise: Reproductive Health
Carole Joffe is a professor at ANSIRH and a professor of sociology emerita at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of reproductive health, with a particular interest in abortion provision. Her most recent book (with David Cohen) is Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to get an Abortion in America, published by the University of California Press. Besides writing for an academic audience, she also writes frequently for the general public on the topics of reproductive health and reproductive politics, and has published op-eds, blog posts and letters in such venues as the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and The Hill. In 2017, Dr. Joffe was awarded the Christopher Tietze Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Abortion Federation; in 2015, the David Gunn Lifetime Achievement Award by the Abortion Care Network; and in 2013, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society of Family Planning. She has served two terms on the Board of Directors of the National Abortion Federation. Dr. Joffe received her BA from Brandeis University and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
