Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN

Monica McLemore is currently a Visiting Professor at the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University. Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health and justice. To date, she has 145 peer reviewed articles, OpEds, and commentaries, and her research has been cited in the Huffington Post, Lavender Health, eight amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, four National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine reports, and a data visualization project entitled “How To Fix Maternal Mortality: The first step is to stop blaming women” that was published in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American.

Her work has also 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. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is a past chair of the Sexual and Reproductive Health section of the American Public Health Association. She was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2019. She became the Editor in Chief of Health Equity Journal in 2022.