Table of Contents: 00:00 - Welcome 00:25 - Mellissa Withers, PhD, MHS 18:49 - Martha Grace Cromeens, JD, BSN, RN 29:58 - Marie Stoner, PhD 43:25 - Subasri Narasimhan, PhD 56:26 - Kecia L. Ellick, M.S., This is a recording of the APHA Women's Caucus webinar that was presented on December 16, 2020. The speaker's bios are below: Mellissa Withers, PhD, MHS is Associate Professor at the Keck School of Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine. She also is also Director of the Global Health Program of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, a non-profit network of 55 universities in the region. She earned a PhD from the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, an MHS from the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BA in international development from UC Berkeley. Dr Withers is the editor of two books: Global Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Across the Lifecourse, and Global Health Leadership: Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific. She also writes a blog on human trafficking on Psychology Today. Martha Grace Cromeens, JD, BSN, RN is an attorney, nurse, and a PhD candidate at the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Hillman Scholar in Nursing Innovation and a Matthews Scholar. Her research interests focus on the intersection of women’s health, health equity, and health law. Her current research explores pathways to diagnosis of endometriosis among a diverse sample of women, and received funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health (F31NR018786), Sigma Theta Tau International, The American Nurses Foundation, and the Hillman Scholars in Nursing Innovation Dr. Stoner is a social and infectious disease epidemiologist at RTI International with an interest in the social determinants of reproductive and sexual health outcomes among adolescent populations. Specifically, she seeks to understand (1) pathways by which factors like violence, and poverty influence sexual health and (2) how create more effective intervention approaches in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. She combines epidemiologic methods with methods from other social science disciplines to explore these questions. Dr. Subasri Narasimhan is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Rollins School of Public Health at the Center for Reproductive Health in the Southeast. She employs mixed and multi-level methodology to study the impact of policy restrictions on reproductive health both in the Southeast and internationally. The work she is presenting today was generously funded by the Society for Family Planning's 2019 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning Award. Kecia L. Ellick, M.S., is a doctoral candidate in family science at the University of Maryland College Park’s School of Public Health. Her research interests center Black women and girls in the areas of sexual and reproductive health; health equity; public health policy; and psychosocial development. As a prevention educator, Kecia delivered evidence-based, dating violence prevention curricula to high school students; facilitated sexual assault prevention workshops for high school and college students; and provided awareness outreach to local communities through special events and activities. As a research assistant, Kecia has analyzed primary data collected during a medical home intervention for teen parent families; conducted systematic reviews and synthesis of research literature; designed, piloted, and implemented a qualitative research study; presented research findings at numerous local, regional, and national conferences; and has received several student research awards. She was also awarded a dissertation seed grant for her qualitative study on stress and coping among highly educated Black women. Kecia has worked on numerous research projects and possesses skills in research design, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, qualitative interviewing, engaging with vulnerable and hard to reach populations, and disseminating research findings to a variety of stakeholders. Kecia is currently a project coordinator and field employee for the CDC Foundation working on projects related to reducing maternal mortality and is an adjunct instructor of psychology at Clayton State University. Prior to her doctorate studies, Kecia received B.A. degrees in psychology and sociology and an M.S. in applied developmental psychology.

The goal of this webinar is to bring attention to public health issues that affect the health and wellbeing of women in the US. • Manu Multani discusses how Photovoice can be used to exam the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of women. • Dr. Tiffany Green discussed how racial and ethnic disparities in access to prenatal care may impact the health outcomes of children. For more information: Contact the Chair of the APHA Women's Caucus, Dr. Michelle S. Williams at womenscaucus.chair@gmail.com

A webinar organized by the Women's Caucus. This webinar features 3 of the Women's Caucus' highest scoring abstract award winners from the 2019 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo.