Hayley V. McMahon, MSPH, CPH is a doctoral student in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health. She received her Masters of Science in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work at the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE) focuses on the structural barriers to abortion access in the U.S. South, self-managed abortion, abortion misinformation, and qualitative methods.
Whitney S. Rice, DrPH, MPH, is a Rollins Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health, and Director of the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE). Dr. Rice leverages training and transdisciplinary expertise from health care organization and policy, health services research, and maternal and child health disciplines in the pursuit of greater equity in sexual and reproductive health outcomes, care delivery, and scholarship. Her research program to date has examined implications of social and structural determinants (e.g., stigma, discrimination, policy change) of psychosocial and health outcomes as well as healthcare access and use, particularly in family planning, HIV prevention, and perinatal health settings. Dr. Rice is committed to patient and stakeholder-centered production and translation of scientific evidence, and to the mentorship and inclusion of trainees in this work.