{"id":665,"date":"2020-07-20T02:34:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T02:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/policy-on-purpose\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=665"},"modified":"2020-07-20T02:34:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T02:34:56","slug":"abigail-aiken","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/policy-on-purpose\/speaker\/abigail-aiken\/","title":{"rendered":"Abigail Aiken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Abigail R.A.\u00a0Aiken held\u00a0postdoctoral and lecturer positions at the\u00a0Office of Population Research and\u00a0Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs\u00a0at Princeton University before joining The University of Texas in 2016. She is currently an assistant professor of public affairs at\u00a0the LBJ School and a faculty associate at the Population Research Center. Her\u00a0research focuses on reproductive health and spans several disciplines, combining backgrounds in biomedical sciences, public policy, demography and public health. Her current projects include: examining women&#8217;s experiences obtaining self-sourced\u00a0abortion in contexts where\u00a0legislative barriers prevent access to safe, legal abortion\u00a0through the health care system; evaluating programs and policies designed to increase access to contraception in the postpartum and\u00a0postabortion\u00a0setting; and investigating the determinants and impacts of unintended pregnancies through a health equity and reproductive justice framework. Her work has recently been published in\u00a0the BMJ, The New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, Social Science &amp; Medicine, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology, Contraception\u00a0and the\u00a0American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":666,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-665","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Assistant Professor of Public Affairs","speaker_last_name":"","speaker_classification":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/policy-on-purpose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/policy-on-purpose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/policy-on-purpose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/policy-on-purpose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/policy-on-purpose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/665\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/policy-on-purpose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/policy-on-purpose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}