Dr. Allison is a teen-focused general pediatrician and health services researcher whose research focuses on the provision of equitable, developmentally tailored sexual and reproductive healthcare to adolescents. Her primary research interests are (1) developing new approaches to engage clinicians in the translation and delivery of adolescent-centered sexual and reproductive healthcare; and (2) implementing effective, patient-oriented, and scalable interventions to improve uncovering reproductive autonomy. She is pursuing research focused on understanding provider biases in contraceptive counseling and care and understanding adolescent information-seeking and decision-making regarding contraception and abortion in the current sociopolitical environment. Through these studies, her group is working to gain a better understanding of how to support both clinicians and adolescents in person-centered contraceptive counseling and care. Her long-term career goal is to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health outcomes, particularly for those with marginalized identities, by improving the quality of and access to adolescent-centered sexual and reproductive health care delivery.
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