Hayley McMahon (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences and a Doctoral Fellow with The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), where she studies social and structural determinants of abortion access in the United States. She is a proud, first-generation college graduate and holds a Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. Her research interests include abortion accessibility for rural and low-income populations, self-managed medication abortion, reproductive health misinformation, qualitative methods, research applications of the reproductive justice framework, and community-led research.
Areas of Interest
- Health Communication
- Health Education
- Public Health Policy
- Reproductive Health
- Social Determinants of Health
Education
- B.A. 2017, Duke University
- MSPH 2022, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Affiliations & Activities
Doctoral Fellow, The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE)
Board of Directors, Holler Health Justice
American Public Health Association
APHA Abortion Task Force
Society for Family Planning
The Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health
Publications
- McMahon, H.V., Karp, C., Bell, S.O., Shiferaw, S., Seme, A., Yihdego, M., & Zimmerman, L.A., 2022, Availability of Postabortion Care Services in Ethiopia: Estimates from a 2020 National Sample of Public Facilities, Contraception X, ,
- McMahon, H.V., 2021, Medically Safe, Legally Risky: The Urgent Need to Decriminalize Self-Managed Abortion in the United States, Public Health Review, 4,