42: Reproductive Health and Disability

Dr. Willi Horner-Johnson takes a cross-disability approach to pregnancy and health in her work as Associate Professor at Oregon Health and Science University's School of Public Health, director of the Oregon Office on Disability in Health, and co-PI of the National Center for Disability and Pregnancy. Her work studies both pregnancy of people with disabilities and the birth of people with disabilities from preconception to post-partum health. She calls for a culture shift in reproductive care to respect people with disabilities, and for more accessible healthcare settings. 

Episode Transcript: here

Episode transcripts can be found at http://disabilityhealth.jhu.edu/included/

Other links:

"Perinatal Health Risks And Outcomes Among US Women With Self-Reported Disability, 2011–19," Health Affairs: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00497

"'It Would Have Been Nice to Have a Choice': Barriers to Contraceptive Decision-making among Women with Disabilities," Women's Health Issues: https://www.whijournal.com/article/S1049-3867(22)00001-9/fulltext

OHSU University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities - Reproductive Health Research: https://www.ohsu.edu/university-center-excellence-development-disability/reproductive-health-research

National Center for Disability and Pregnancy Research homepage: https://heller.brandeis.edu/disability-and-pregnancy/