Stephanie Arteaga, MPH

Stephanie Arteaga is a doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Graduate Student Researcher with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a Project Director with the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity (SHARE) Program at the University of California, Berkeley. For nearly ten years, Stephanie has worked in health research with a focus on reproductive justice, health equity, and improving health outcomes for communities of color. Her interests include the impacts of structural racism and trauma on mental and reproductive health for BIPOC communities and engaging community in research to tell their own stories through qualitative methods. As a first generation Mexican American, Stephanie is particularly interested in how mental health and trauma impact reproductive decision-making among recently immigrated and early generation Latinas. Stephanie earned an MPH in Maternal and Child Health at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2016, and a BA in Sociology from San Francisco State University in 2013.