Elizabeth Janiak is an interdisciplinary public health researcher and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Her research traces how public and institutional policies perpetuate inequities in access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health care including contraceptive, abortion, and obstetric services. Current projects include several studies of evidence-based mifepristone use for abortion and early pregnancy loss. Dr. Janiak completed her undergraduate and graduate training at Harvard. She is a recipient of the Society of Family Planning's Junior Investigator Award, the preeminent career development grant for abortion researchers in the United States. She serves as Director of Social Science Research at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. Her research has been cited by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and covered in dozens of media outlets including The Boston Globe, National Public Radio, and Scientific American.