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Melissa Goldin Evans

Postdoctoral Researcher, Tulane University
Chapter Member: New Orleans SSN
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Evans' research focuses on community health, perinatal health, contraceptive access, maternal and child health disparities, and equitable community-level solutions. Emphasizing her passion for reproductive health equity, Evans' dissertation pertained to measuring access to contraceptives among Louisiana women with Medicaid who were at risk of unintended pregnancies.

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Contributions

In Post-Roe Louisiana, Things Go From Bad to Worse for Teens

  • Clare Daniel
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Publications

"Contraceptive Provision by Obstetricians/Gynecologists in the US: Biases, Misperceptions, and Barriers to an Essential Reproductive Health Service" in Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics: Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practice, edited by R, A Premkumar and Ashish Premkumar (New York: Berghahn Books, Forthcoming 2023).

Describes how OB/GYN biases and misperceptions are barriers to contraceptive access in the U.S.

"Delivering Health Information to Parents via a Theory-Informed SMS-Based Intervention: Development and Results from a Pilot Study" (with Julia Fleckman , Tylar T Williams, Stephanie M Tokarz, and Katherine P Theall). Maternal and Child Health Journal 1 (2022): 49-57.

Discusses the utility of a text-based health program for low-income parents of children in an early childhood education center.

"State Abortion Policies and Maternal Death in the US, 2015–2018" (with Clare Daniel, Dovile Vilda , Maeve E Wallace, Charles Stoecker , and Katherine P Theall). American Journal of Public Health 111, no. 9 (2021): 1696-1704.

Shows how state abortion policies impact maternal death in the U.S.

"Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) Utilization After Policy Change Increasing Device Reimbursement to Wholesale Acquisition Cost in Louisiana" (with Stephanie Broyles , Brittni Frederiksen, Rebekah E Gee, Stephen Phillippi, Melinda Sothern , Katherine P Theall, and Joan Wightkin). American Journal of Obstetrics of Gynecology 221, no. 2 (2019).

Mentions how long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) uptake and provision increased in Louisiana following a policy change that increased the reimbursement rate for LARCs.

"The Status of Women’s Reproductive Rights and Adverse Birth Outcomes. Women’s Health Issues, 27(2), 121-128." (with Maeve Ellen Wallace and Katherine Theall). Women's Health Issues 27, no. 2 (2017): 121-128.

Describes how state reproductive health policies impacts birth outcomes.