Alice F. Cartwright, PhD, MPH

I’m a reproductive and maternal health researcher and public health scientist.

I completed my PhD in Maternal and Child Health, with a minor in Population Studies at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and was a Predoctoral Trainee at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

My research interests focus on access to contraception and abortion in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa. I am also interested in health policy and social conditions that facilitate or restrict access to reproductive health care, the integration of infertility into abortion research, and how digital technologies can be used in reproductive health.

My dissertation focused on integrating neighborhood measures of racial and socioeconomic polarization into examining contraceptive use patterns in the United States. It also assessed how Medicaid expansion may have differentially impacted contraceptive use by those neighborhood measures.

I received my BA in Sociology with a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Haverford College and my MPH in Health and Social Behavior from the University of California, Berkeley. I have worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), FHI 360, and the Guttmacher Institute, where I am currently a Senior Research Scientist.