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Dr. McLemore is an Associate Professor, Family Health Care Nursing, at the
University of California San Francisco, an affiliated scientist with Advancing
New Standards in Reproductive Health, and a member of the Bixby Center for
Global Reproductive Health. She is a internationally known expert and
advocate for women’s health rights. Her currently funded research is in Racial
Health Equity in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). From her web
profile, in her own words: I retired from clinical practice as a public health and
staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career. My program of research is
grounded in reproductive justice, a lens I use to understand reproductive health
and rights for people with the capacity for pregnancy. My work is grounded in
the hypothesis that if we center the most marginalized people, care improves
for everyone. I conduct research across the reproductive spectrum including
abortion, birth, cancer risk, contraception, family planning, and healthy
sexuality, pleasure, and consent. My work exemplifies the combination of
nursing, public health, and policy research using community engaged and
embedded methods to develop programs to test and deliverinterventions.
Dr. McLemore has 65 peer reviewed articles, Op-eds, and commentaries and
her research has been cited in the Huffington Post, Lavender Health, four
amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and a National
Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report.
Her work has appeared in publications such as Dame Magazine, Politico,
ProPublica/NPR and she made a voice appearance in Terrance Nance’s HBO series
Random Acts of Flyness.
Her work was published in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American
as a data visualization project entitled How to Fix Maternal Mortality: The First Step to
stop blaming women.
She is an elected member for the governing council for Sexual and Reproductive
Health (SRH) section of the American Public Health Association and is chair-elect of
the SRH section. She is the recipient of numerous awards and was inducted into the
American Academy of Nursing in 2019.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The College of New Jersey, a Master
of Public Health with emphasis on Health Education from San Francisco State
University, and a PhD in Nursing from University of California, SanFrancisco.