Diana Greene Foster

Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Director of the Bixby Population Sciences Research Unit at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health

University of California, San Francisco

Description

Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She led the United States Turnaway Study, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who seek abortion including both women who do and do not receive the abortion. She is leading a study of the health, legal and economic consequences of the end of Roe and a Turnaway Study in Nepal. She is the author of over 120 scientific papers as well as the 2020 book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion.

Sessions

Late-Breaking Session: Abortion and science reporting
October 19, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Virtual
NASW Professional Development SessionVideo AvailableVirtual
Speakers
Diana Greene Foster
Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Director of the Bixby Population Sciences Research Unit at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
Caitlin Knowles Myers
John G. McCullough Professor of Economics; Co-director of the Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods, Middlebury College
Tamika C. Odum
Associate Professor of Sociology; Researcher, Ohio Policy Evaluation Network (OPEN), University of Cincinnati
Patty Skuster
Visiting professor, Beasley School of Law; Fellow at the Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University
Organizer and Moderator
Amy Maxmen
Science reporter and Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations