Collins Lovell Named Emerging Scholar in Family Planning
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Community health education doctoral candidate Camille Collins Lovell has been selected as an Emerging Scholar in Family Planning grantee for 2024. The award from the Society of Family Planning aims to help trainees establish a family planning research portfolio and to develop the next generation of community researchers.
The Society of Family Planning (SFP) is an international non-profit professional organization established in 2005 specializing in abortion and contraception science. It is composed of physicians, nurses, sociologists, public health practitioners and trainees in these fields. The $7500 grant will further her dissertation research on the reproductive experiences and family-making practices of migrant dairy workers.
Collins Lovell, who works under the supervision of Professor Aline Gubrium, was a fellow at the CDC’s Center for Global Health and worked internationally for 20 years on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including maternal health, HIV prevention and treatment, contraceptive access, safe abortion, and adolescent sexual health, throughout Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has expertise in qualitative research methods, narrative intervention, and community-based participatory approaches. Her current dissertation research explores the reproductive experiences of undocumented Latina dairy farmworkers, including the geographic, economic, legal, and other constraints they encounter in accessing contraceptive methods, abortion, and maternal health care in rural Vermont. Using an ethnographic approach, she hopes to understand family-making practices in the wider context of transnational family dynamics, women’s labor, and immigration policy. Her research applies the tenets of reproductive justice and hopes to contribute to the movement for the health and rights of undocumented immigrant families in the US. She received her MPH at Tulane University.