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“Think Syphilis” – Innovative Strategies for Targeting LA Women
Melissa Papp-Green
LA County Department of Public Health
January 23, 2020
Empowerment with Sex Workers for HIV Prevention in India
Dallas Swendeman
UCLA Global Health Institute
May 19, 2019
Understanding HPV Vaccine Hesitancy from A Cultural and Social Perspective: Romania Case Study
Adriana Baban
Babes-Bolyai University Dept. of Psychology
April 16, 2019
Gender Discrimination in Sexual & Reproductive Health Rights-The Role of the Judiciary in Southern Africa
Justice Oagile Key Dingake
Justice of Supreme and National Courts of Papua New Guinea
February 4, 2019
Telehealth: The next frontier in abortion care
Ushma Upadhyay
Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health UCSF
January 9, 2019
Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity for Foster Youth
Lesli LeGras
National Center for Youth Law
May 29, 2018
Forced Care During Pregnancy: Why Time’s Up On That Too
Julie D. Cantor
UCLA School of Law
April 12, 2018
From Horror to Humor: Abortion on American Television
Gretchen Sisson
UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health
January 25, 2018
Homeless and Vulnerable Youth in Los Angeles: Sexual & Reproductive Health Challenges (Mounier) Audio available
Carrie Mounier
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
November 29, 2017
Homeless and Vulnerable Youth in Los Angeles: Sexual & Reproductive Health Challenges (Parra) Audio available
Inez Parra
My Friend's Place
November 29, 2017
Sex Ed, Gender Equality, Public Health and Social Justice
Magaly Marques
Promundo
May 30, 2017
Creating Space: A Lactation Accommodation Project
UCLA
May 18, 2017
Reproductive Justice and Safe Haven Laws
Laury Oaks
UCSB
April 12, 2017
Reproductive Health of Young Women in Los Angeles County Probation Camps
Hailey Jures
Violence Intervention Program
February 21, 2017
California Health Youth Act: How is LAUSD gearing up?
Tim Kordic
Los Angeles Unified School District
November 29, 2016
California Healthy Youth Act: Moving Implementation Forward-What Still Needs to be Done
Melissa Papp-Green
A County Department of Public Health
November 29, 2016
California Health Youth Act: How did we get this great law?
Kelly Soto
ACLU of Southern California
November 29, 2016
Sexuality Education Initiative: A Multi-Component High School Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
Nicole Ressa
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
April 12, 2016
Creating Futures Without Domestic Violence: Policy Change, Men and Clinicians
Debbie Lee
Futures Without Violence
February 16, 2016
Firearms and Violent Death in the United States
Deborah Azrael
Harvard Injury Control Research Center
January 26, 2016
Adolescent Reproductive Health in Uganda: Strategies and Challenge
Geoffrey Anguyo
Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO)
October 12, 2015
Health and Advocacy of LGBTI People in Southern Africa
Caroline Maposhere
Southern Africa AIDS Dissemination Services
September 30, 2015
Fetal Origins of Adult Obesity
Michael Ross
Geffen School of Medicine and the Fielding School of Public Health
May 7, 2015
The Health & Well-being of Adolescents with Lesbian Mothers: Findings from the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study
Nanette Gartrell
Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the Williams Institute UCLA School of Law
April 16, 2015
Addressing Reproductive Health as a Human Right:
Cynthia Maung
Mae Tao Clinic
March 9, 2015
Consequences for Women of Receiving or Being Denied a Wanted Abortion
Diana Greene Foster
University of California at San Francisco
January 29, 2015
Sexual and Reproductive Health in a Post-Obamacare World
Alejandro Huerta
California Family Health Council
December 2, 2014
Introduction of the female condom in Southern Africa
Caroline Maposhere
Gender Sexual and Reproductive Health Consultant
November 12, 2014
Our Girls Matter: Menstrual Hygiene Management in Nigeria, Education and Male Participation
Deborah Dauda, MPH '12
Leading Everyone to Participate in Africa (LEPA)
May 8, 2014
Violence & Reproductive Health: A Panel Discussion
Melodie Kruspodin, Saima Husain
Just Detention International, Peace Over Violence, South Asian Network
April 29, 2013
Making Our Voices Heard on Reproductive Justice
Sandra Fluke
Lawyer and Women's Rights Activist
February 25, 2014
Sex Trafficking of Domestic Minors
Anne-Michelle Ellis
San Bernardino County Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation(C.A.S.E)
February 6, 2014
The Economics of Sex Work: A Developing Country Perspective
Manisha Shah
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
December 4, 2013
Gender Transformation, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and HIV in South Africa
Emily Nagisa Keehn
Sonke Gender Justice Network
October 22, 2013
Investing Where it Counts: Building Social, Health and Economic Assets for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls in Africa
Eunice Muthengi
Population Council
April 15, 2013
Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: A Discussion on Cancer Genetics and a Fello Bruin’s Action Plan
Claudia Gilmore, Patricia Ganz
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
February 13, 2013
Safe, Legal, and Rare? An update on abortion around the world
Caitlin Gerdts
UCSF
November 26, 2012
Media Strategies to Impact Health and Social Change in West Africa
Alexandre Rideau
RAES
October 11, 2012
Sexual Violence: Current Issues Among Adolescents & Juveniles in Detention
Linda MacFarland, Sari Lorge
Just Detention International, Peace Over Violence
February 7, 2012
Fistula and Conflict: Reproductive Health in East Democratic Republic of Congo
Nerys Benfield
Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF
May 19, 2011
The Health of Women Prisoners: Global Challenges and Solutions
Nancy Stoller
UCSC
April 12, 2011
Zooming In and Out: Explorations of HIV risk, Responsibility, Intimacy and Love
Heidi Van Rooyen
Human Sciences Research Council
December 2, 2010
Adolescent Reproductive Health and Social Media in Senegal
Alex Rideau
RAES
May 19, 2010
Overview of the Process of Developing a National Population Policy: Lessons from Rwanda
Michelle J. Hindin
John Hopkins University
April 28, 2010
In Trying to Find Common Ground, Do We Hurt Abortion Rights?
Tracy A Weitz
Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF
January 25, 2010
Science, Abstinence, and Nonsense: Ideological Threats to Public Health
John S Santelli
Columbia University, Heilbrunn Dept. of Population and Family Health
January 5, 2010
Worker Health and Safety in the Adult Film Industry
Peter R. Kerndt
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
May 21, 2008
Abortion vs. Post-abortion Care in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Solomon Orero
Aga Khan and Nairobi Hospitals
May 8, 2008
Being Delivered of Giving Birth? Alternate Global Child Practices
Anne Verwall
March 5, 2008
Misconceptions about AIDS in Africa: Ours and Theirs
Susan Cotts Watkins
University of Pennsylvania
January 29, 2008
The New Partial Birth Abortion Law and Abortion Rights in the United States: Where do we stand?
Regina Clemente
Planned Parenthood
June 7, 2007
Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS
Helen Epstein
June 6, 2007
Microbicides: A New Hope for HIV/STIs. Global and Local Perspectives
Pamina Gorbach
UCLA School of Public Health
June 4, 2007
Why Have Human Rights Organizations Taken On Reproductive Health?
LaShawn R. Jefferson
Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Watch
March 31, 2007
Trapped in the Shadows: Sex Trafficking and Women’s Health
Dr. K. Wendy Freed
Miller Children's Hospital Abuse and Violence Intervention Center
March 13, 2007
Access to Second Trimester Abortion: A Public Health Perspective
Tracy Weitz
Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy, UCSF
January 24, 2007
Challenges of Reproductive Health in Complex Emergencies
Stephen Tomlin
International Medical Corps
March 6, 2007
Impact of a Web-Based Intervention on Reproductive Health Services in Rural China
Virginia Li
UCLA School of Public Health
November 14, 2006
Legal Issues Regarding Safety of Performers in the Adult Film Industry
Maria de Cesare
AFI Think Tank
October 27, 2006
STD Risks to Performers in the Adult Film Industry
Katherine M. Stone
October 27, 2006
Entertainment Broadcasting and Reproductive Health in Developing Countries: The Power of Role Models
William N. Ryerson
Population Media Center
September 26, 2006
Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues for Underserved Women
Lourdes Rivera
National Health Law Program
May 25, 2006
What Happens When Women’s Preventive Care is Undervalued? Lessons from Romania
Adriana Baban
Babes-Bolyai University
May 10, 2006
Reproductive Health Issues in Asia and the Pacific: Old Challenges, New Strategies
Sona Sethi
Planned Parenthood
April 28, 2006
Psychosocial Stress and Persistent Racial Disparities in Adverse Birth Outcomes
Tyan Parker Dominguez
University of Southern California
April 10, 2006
Reproductive Health Disparities: A Lifespan Approach
Kimberly D. Gregory
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA School of Public Health
April 10, 2006
Conceptual Framework: Health Disparities in African-American Women
Antronette (Toni) Yancey
UCLA School of Public Health and Center to Eliminate Health Disparities
April 10, 2006
An Update on HIV in Mexico
Dr. Jorge Savedra
Mexico HIV/AIDS Program
February 8, 2006
Improving Women’s Reproductive Health Through Expanding Access to Key Health Technologies
Jackie Sherris
PATH
November 18, 2005
Women’s Health, Emergency Contraception and the FDA
Susan Wood
Reproductive Health Technologies Project
February 7, 2006
The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children: Making Reproductive Health a Priority for Refugee and Displaced Women
Carolyn Makinson
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
October 18, 2005
Safer Sex for Sex Workers Part 2: Public Health Issues in the Adult Film Industry
Peter R. Kerndt
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
May 23, 2005
Reproductive Health in HIV Infected Women
Helene Bernstein
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
March 8, 2005
Safer Sex for Sex Workers
Sharon Mitchell
Adult Industry Health Care Foundation (AIM-Med)
February 10, 2005
Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
Lisa Bohmer
UNICEF
November 23, 2004
Planned Parenthood: Advancing the Reproductive Rights Agenda
Mary-Jane Waglé
Planned Parenthood
October 19, 2004
The Abortion Pill, the Morning After Pill and Microbicides: the Politics of New Reproductive Technologies
Francine Coeytaux
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
May 13, 2004
Harnessing the Power of Entertainment to Improve Reproductive Health Globally
Sonny Fox
Population Communications International (PCI)
March 10, 2004
The Impact of President Bush’s Policies on Women’s Reproductive Health: The Case of UNFPA
Jane Roberts, Sarah P. Burns
UCLA Institute for the Environment, UNFPA
November 13, 2003
Reproductive Health of Refugees: Progress and Challenges
Dr. Henia Dakkak
International Medical Corps
November 6, 2003
Barriers to Reproductive Health in Post-Communist Romania
Dr. Adriana Baban
May 28, 2003
Sex Work in Russia: Qualitative Studies of Its Ecology, Social Organization, and Impact on STD Epidemiology
Dr. Sevgi Aral
CDC
May 13, 2003
Organizing for Sexual and Reproductive Rights: The Latin American Consortium for Emergency Contraception
Angeles Cabria
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
May 9, 2003
Post-Abortion Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Developments
Dr. Solomon Orero
Aga Khan and Nairobi Hospitals
March 12, 2003
Achieving Reproductive Rights in Brazil
Magaly Marquez
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
February 12, 2003
HIV/AIDS and Women in Nepal
Pradeepta Upadhyay
South Asian Network
December 6, 2002
New Approaches to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
Dr. Chandice Covington
UCLA School of Nursing
October 24, 2002
The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Kenya
Dr. Mohammed S. Abdullah
Kenyan National AIDS Committee
October 24, 2002

Highlights of some of our Bixby Interns

Lou Paulette Din
Ryan Raypon
Makaela Newsome
Bryce Henderson
Amy Westermann
Irish del Rosario
Cathi Lee
Claudia Gilmore
Danielle Harris
Janell Moore

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