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 from Appalachia 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 misinformation, structural determinants of abortion access, self-managed medication abortion, qualitative methods, research applications of the reproductive justice framework, and community-led research.
Areas of Interest
- Community Based Research
- Health Communication
- Health Literacy
- 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
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,