Brianna Keefe-Oates is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department. She studies how policies and community-based activism can influence inequities in access to reproductive health services and health outcomes, especially during the pregnancy and postpartum periods. Her current research focuses on understanding abortion care access and quality after abortion was legalized in Argentina and how parental leave impacts postpartum care attendance in the United States.
Brianna is collaborating with a feminist activist collective, La Revuelta, to highlight opportunities and challenges to comprehensive, accessible abortion services in Argentina, where abortion was legalized through 14 weeks of pregnancy in 2020. With the goal of improving abortion access, Brianna will work with La Revuelta to analyze data from a study assessing people’s experiences accessing abortion services; they will then create and implement a plan to disseminate those findings to the public, abortion providers, policymakers, and advocates.