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An Update on Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice – Policy Implications

Wednesday, October 20 at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Add to Calendar 2021-10-20 19:00:00 2021-10-20 20:00:00 An Update on Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice – Policy Implications Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies Grand Rounds Monica R. McLemore RN, MPH, PhD, FAAN Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair Associate Professor, Family Health Care Nursing Department Research Scientist, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) At the University of California, San Francisco, Monica McLemore is the Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair and a tenured associate professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department. She is also an affiliated scientist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, a member of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, and affiliated faculty at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Center for Vulnerable Populations. She retired from clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career. Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health and justice. To date, she has 79 peer reviewed articles, OpEds and commentaries and her research has been cited in the Huffington Post, Lavender Health, three amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and two National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine reports, and a data visualization project entitled How To Fix Maternal Mortality: The first step is to stop blaming women that was published in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American. Her work has appeared in publications such as Dame Magazine, Politico, ProPublica/NPR and she made a voice appearance in Terrance Nance’s HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. She is the recipient of numerous awards and currently serves as chair-elect for Sexual and Reproductive Health section of the American Public Health Association. She was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2019. beth.thew@ucsf.edu America/Los_Angeles public

Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies Grand Rounds

Monica R. McLemore RN, MPH, PhD, FAAN
Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair
Associate Professor, Family Health Care Nursing Department
Research Scientist, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)

At the University of California, San Francisco, Monica McLemore is the Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair and a tenured associate professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department. She is also an affiliated scientist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, a member of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, and affiliated faculty at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Center for Vulnerable Populations. She retired from clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career. Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health and justice. To date, she has 79 peer reviewed articles, OpEds and commentaries and her research has been cited in the Huffington Post, Lavender Health, three amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and two National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine reports, and a data visualization project entitled How To Fix Maternal Mortality: The first step is to stop blaming women that was published in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American. Her work has appeared in publications such as Dame Magazine, Politico, ProPublica/NPR and she made a voice appearance in Terrance Nance’s HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. She is the recipient of numerous awards and currently serves as chair-elect for Sexual and Reproductive Health section of the American Public Health Association. She was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2019.

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