Liza Fuentes is Director of Health Equity Research at Boston Medical Center. Previously, she worked at the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization focused on reproductive rights. Fuentes’ studies focus on access to and the use of contraception, abortion, abortion restrictions, self-managed abortion, reproductive autonomy and clinical training in reproductive health. 

She was a senior research associate at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. There, Fuentes conducted research and analyzed the effects of immigration and health policies on Latina immigrants and adolescent reproductive health. While at Ibis Reproductive Health, Fuentes researched miscarriage management and self-induced abortion, and researched the evaluation of HB-2, the Texas bill that would ban abortion 20 weeks post-fertilization. This bill’s provisions were struck down by the Supreme Court in 2015.

Fuentes is also a former board member of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, the National Network of Abortion Funds, the New York Abortion Access Fund and the DC Abortion Fund.

Fuentes completed her DrPH at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and was a predoctoral fellow at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research. She also has a master’s in public health from Columbia University.

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Pronouns: she/her

Expertise: Reproductive health and justice, Latina and adolescent health, abortion rights and restrictions, contraception

Location: Boston, Mass.

Twitter: @fuentes_liza

Heard on NPR’s Short Wave: “How Changes in Abortion Law Could Impact Community Health”