Elizabeth  Mosley

Elizabeth (Liz) Mosley, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (remotely from Atlanta) and is also affiliated with Emory University’s Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE) at Rollins School of Public Health, where she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences (BSHES). Dr. Mosley is also a full spectrum doula, who integrates her community-based service, research, teaching, and advocacy. As a researcher, she investigates how structural and social determinants (including racism, sexism, economic inequality, and stigma) affect sexual and reproductive health equity in the US and globally. Her research applies quantitative, qualitative, multi-level, and community-engaged methods to study contraception and abortion; pregnancy support interventions (ex: doula care); and gender-based violence. 

Through Emory-RISE, Dr. Mosley is a co-Principal Investigator with the Georgia Medication Abortion Project, led by reproductive justice organization SisterLove, and co-Principal Investigator of the Georgia Doula Study with Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia. At the University of Pittsburgh, she works as a Co-Investigator for the “My Decision” and "My Vasectomy" projects—both decision aids for Medicaid patients considering permanent contraception (NIMHD R01MD011678; NICHD R01HD110557), for a mixed methods study developing and testing a new measure of pregnancy acceptability in diverse populations (NICHD R01HD103286), for a patient-centered study on Medicaid-funded doula care in six states (PCORI), and for a mixed methods study investigating how the overturning of Roe v. Wade impacts health and wellbeing for people with chronic illness (NICHD R61HD113515).

Dr. Mosley's work has been widely disseminated at international and domestic conferences (ex: Population Association of America and Let’s Talk About Sex), high-impact journals (ex: the American Journal of Public Health), news media (ex: The Hill), and online outlets for public scholarship (ex: Huffington Post and Rewire News). Dr. Mosley serves on the Advisory Council for the Embrace Refugee Birth Support program in Clarkston, Georgia; on the Board of Growing Forward Together; as a member of the Steering Committee for Morehouse School of Medicine’s Center for Maternal Health Equity; and as the Research Subgroup Leader of the Georgia Doula Access Working Group.