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About Kimberly Randell, Chelsea Salyer, Katherine Gwynn, Molly Allison, Michelle Pickett, Joi Wickliffe, Patricia Kelly and Megha Ramaswamy

Kimberly Randell, MD, MSc, is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Mercy Kansas City and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Her research and advocacy focus on addressing psychosocial determinants of health in order to improve the wellbeing of children, adolescents, and their families. Her current projects include optimizing support within pediatric healthcare settings for families experiencing intimate partner violence and brief interventions to promote healthy adolescent relationships and connect adolescents to resources for relationship abuse, reproductive coercion, and sexual exploitation.

Addressing reproductive coercion during the COVID-19 pandemic

By | October 16, 2020
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Historically, women are disproportionately impacted by pandemic illness and COVID-19 is no exception. Addressing domestic violence (DV) and access to reproductive healthcare may reduce the gendered impact of COVID-19. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, we piloted a program to enhance reproductive health literacy, Sexual Health Empowerment for Birth Control (SHE-BC). This program may offer insights to… Read More »