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My research addresses socially and morally complex issues in women’s health and reproductive medicine, with a focus on how people assign meaning to reproductive events. A central goal of her work is to inform and reframe debates based on the views of those most profoundly affected by them, and to appropriately weight these individuals’ interests in shaping reproductive health care.
Dr. Lyerly co-founded the Obstetrics and Gynecology Risk Research Group, which brought together experts from medical epidemiology, anthropology, obstetrics and gynecology, philosophy, bioethics, and medical humanities for research on how risk is assessed and managed in the context of pregnancy. She is a founder of the Second Wave Initiative, an effort to ensure that the health interests of pregnant women are fairly represented in biomedical research and drug and device policies. She was PI on the NIH-funded PHASES Project to advance equitable inclusion of pregnant women in HIV research, which produced formal ethics guidance. She co-led a Wellcome Trust funded project to advance equitable inclusion of pregnant women research on Zika and other public health emergencies. She now leads the NIH-funded PREPARE Project addressing the ethics of research engaging pregnant adolescents. She has examined a range of topics in reproductive medicine, including stem cell research and frozen embryo disposition, miscarriage, maternal-fetal surgery, vaginal birth after cesarean, conscience in the provision of reproductive care, and others. She is the author of, A Good Birth (Penguin Group/USA), based on findings of the Good Birth Project, describing what constitutes a “good birth” from the perspectives of childbearing women.
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CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Developmental Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Global Health, Health Equity, Women's Health |