Health Services and Behavioral Research Seminar features speaker from reproductive health center

Sarah Roberts, DrPH, associate professor in the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California – San Francisco, visited Penn State College of Medicine on April 10, 2018.

Dr. Roberts, whose work focuses on way that policies and health care systems punish, rather than support, vulnerable pregnant women, spoke as part of the Health Sciences and Behavioral Research seminar series.

Her recent research has focused on the impact of receiving versus being denied an abortion on women’s alcohol and drug use, evaluating state-level abortion restrictions and state-level policies targeting alcohol use during pregnancy, and developing an evidence-base to inform a genuine public health approach to abortion and abortion facility standards.

Dr. Roberts’ work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health Journal, and Alcohol and Alcoholism.

She received her undergraduate degree in history from Columbia University, her MPH and a graduate certificate in women’s studies from the University of Michigan and her DrPH from the University of California – Berkeley.

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