Thursday, November 17, 2022

November 18: Current Challenges in Reproductive Health Care: Medical, Policy & Legal Perspectives

Dr. Larkins-Pettigrew and Dr. Abigail Moncrieff (C|M|LAW) will focus on reproductive health care challenges for women overall, with a focus on low-income women and women of color.
They will cover pregnancy, maternal health and infant death, abortion and the impact of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, and fertility treatment.
Title:
Current Challenges in Reproductive Health Care: Medical, Policy & Legal Perspectives
When/Where:
Friday, November 18
2022 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Online Via Zoom, or In Person at
Moot Court Room, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Register Now!
Speakers:
Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew
  • Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew is an international diversity, inclusion and equity expert, healthcare strategist, clinical OB/Gyn, professor, author and maternal/infant health care equity advocate. She is currently the first Senior Vice President/Chief Clinical Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer (CCDEIO) of Allegheny Health Network / Highmark Enterprise in Pittsburgh, Pa and the founder/CEO/President of WONDOOR (now JUSTWONDOOR), Women and Newborns, Diversity, Outreach, Opportunity and Research, a program that aims to educate global medical providers through local and international health care collaborations. Her passion for advocating for health equity and building programs that aim to improve outcomes for women, people of color, vulnerable and marginalized communities has been a common thread throughout her highly-respected 30-year career and commitment to ongoing service.   Larkins-Pettigrew is also the author of an autobiography, The Colors of My Heart: Embracing My Blackness with History, Family, Fear, and Faith, a personal and professional testament to the experiences that guide her grit and success navigating race, sexism, politics to become a changemaker, inspire hope and for a more a promising path.
  • Dr. Abigail R. Moncrieff
    Dr. Abigail R. Moncrieff
    is Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at Cleveland State University and Cleveland Marshall College of Law, and she serves as Co-Director of the Center for Health Law & Policy at C|M Law. Dr. Moncrieff's research and writing draw on a wide range of disciplines to illuminate legal, political, and social issues at the intersection of health law and constitutional law. She has published articles on health law and constitutional theory in Columbia Law Review, U. Penn Law Review, and Boston University Law Review, among others, and she is currently working on an ambitious reconceptualization of the American constitutional order in her book-in-progress, Constitutional Technocracy.
Credit:
1.0 hours pending
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University/Sponsored by the Center for Health Law and Policy

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