Sarah Raifman

Project Director

M_ObGyn-Bixby-ZSFG

Sarah is a Project Director and epidemiologist at ANSIRH, using rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the impacts of policies and practices related to reproductive health. She investigates state-level policies targeting alcohol and drug use during pregnancy, the experience of being denied a legal abortion in the US and Nepal, and alternative approaches to medication abortion service provision in the US.

Publications

Cohort profile: The Nepal Turnaway Study.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Murro R, Raifman S, Boscardin WJ, Puri MC, Karki S, Magar AA, Maharjan DC, Rocca CH, Biggs MA, Diamond-Smith NG, Foster DG

Mandatory warning signs for alcohol use during pregnancy and birth and infant outcomes in southern United States: a quasi-experimental study.

Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)

Roberts SCM, Schulte A, Raifman S, Liu G, Zaugg C, Subbaraman MS

Alcohol and drug use and attainment of pregnancy preferences in the southwestern United States: A longitudinal cohort study.

Addiction (Abingdon, England)

Raifman S, Roberts SCM, Rocca CH

Pregnant and Recently Pregnant People's Views on Policies That Punish Pregnant People Who Use Cannabis.

Substance use & misuse

Biggs MA, Raifman S, Zaugg C, Roberts SCM

Postabortion contraceptive use among women in Nepal: results from a longitudinal cohort study.

Reproductive health

Karki S, Puri MC, Magar AA, Foster DG, Raifman S, Maharjan D, Diamond-Smith N

Mail-Order Pharmacy Dispensing of Mifepristone for Medication Abortion After In-Person Screening.

JAMA internal medicine

Grossman D, Raifman S, Morris N, Arena A, Bachrach L, Beaman J, Biggs MA, Collins A, Hannum C, Ho S, Seibold-Simpson SM, Sobota M, Tocce K, Schwarz EB, Gold M

Amicus brief of over 300 reproductive health researchers supports mifepristone's safety and effectiveness.

Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health

Barrow A, Cohen C, Serpico J, Goodman M, Grossman D, Raifman S, Upadhyay U

Brief of over 300 reproductive health researchers as Amici Curiae in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine.

Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health

Barrow A, Cohen C, Serpico J, Goodman M, Grossman D, Raifman S, Upadhyay U

Primary care and abortion provider perspectives on mail-order medication abortion: a qualitative study.

BMC women's health

Raifman S, Gurazada T, Beaman J, Biggs MA, Schwarz EB, Gold M, Grossman D

Is legal recreational cannabis associated with cannabis use during pregnancy, beliefs about safety, and perceived community stigma?

Drug and alcohol dependence

Raifman S, Biggs MA, Rocca C, Roberts SCM

Intimate partner violence, food insecurity and COVID-19 among newly married women in Nawalparasi district of Nepal: a longitudinal study.

Sexual and reproductive health matters

Puri MC, Maharjan DC, Dahal M, Raifman S, Diamond-Smith N

Support for criminalization of self-managed abortion (SMA): A national representative survey.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Biggs MA, Becker A, Schroeder R, Kaller S, Scott K, Grossman D, Raifman S, Ralph L

Perspectives on Alternative Models of Medication Abortion Provision Among Abortion Patients in the United States.

Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health

Ehrenreich K, Baba CF, Raifman S, Grossman D

Denial of legal abortion in Nepal.

PloS one

Puri MC, Raifman S, Daniel S, Karki S, Maharjan DC, Ahlbach C, Diamond-Smith N, Foster DG

Relationship between mandatory warning signs for cannabis use during pregnancy policies and birth outcomes in the Western United States.

Preventive medicine

Roberts SCM, Raifman S, Biggs MA

Evaluating the Effect of San Francisco's Paid Parental Leave Ordinance on Birth Outcomes.

International journal of environmental research and public health

Karasek D, Raifman S, Dow WH, Hamad R, Goodman JM

Mail-order pharmacy dispensing of mifepristone for medication abortion after in-person clinical assessment.

Contraception

Grossman D, Raifman S, Morris N, Arena A, Bachrach L, Beaman J, Biggs MA, Hannum C, Ho S, Schwarz EB, Gold M

"I'll just deal with this on my own": a qualitative exploration of experiences with self-managed abortion in the United States.

Reproductive health

Raifman S, Ralph L, Biggs MA, Grossman D

Pre-Abortion Informed Consent Through Telemedicine vs. in Person: Differences in Patient Demographics and Visit Satisfaction.

Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health

Kaller S, Daniel S, Raifman S, Biggs MA, Grossman D

Medication Abortion With Pharmacist Dispensing of Mifepristone.

Obstetrics and gynecology

Grossman D, Baba CF, Kaller S, Biggs MA, Raifman S, Gurazada T, Rafie S, Averbach S, Meckstroth KR, Micks EA, Berry E, Raine-Bennett TR, Creinin MD

Perspectives on self-managed abortion among providers in hospitals along the Texas-Mexico border.

BMC women's health

Raifman S, Baum SE, White K, Hopkins K, Ogburn T, Grossman D

Is there an association between fertility and domestic violence in Nepal?

AJOG global reports

Raifman S, Puri M, Arcara J, Diamond-Smith N

Border-state abortions increased for Texas residents after House Bill 2.

Contraception

Raifman S, Sierra G, Grossman D, Baum SE, Hopkins K, Potter JE, White K

Prevalence of Self-Managed Abortion Among Women of Reproductive Age in the United States.

JAMA network open

Ralph L, Foster DG, Raifman S, Biggs MA, Samari G, Upadhyay U, Gerdts C, Grossman D

Self-managed medication abortion outcomes: results from a prospective pilot study.

Reproductive health

Moseson H, Jayaweera R, Raifman S, Keefe-Oates B, Filippa S, Motana R, Egwuatu I, Grosso B, Kristianingrum I, Nmezi S, Zurbriggen R, Gerdts C

Mifepristone-misoprostol versus misoprostol-alone regimen for medication abortion at ≥24 weeks' gestation.

Contraception

Wingo E, Raifman S, Landau C, Sella S, Grossman D

Experiences with pain of early medical abortion: qualitative results from Nepal, South Africa, and Vietnam.

BMC women's health

Grossman D, Raifman S, Bessenaar T, Duong LD, Tamang A, Dragoman MV

Characteristics of patients having telemedicine versus in-person informed consent visits before abortion in Utah.

Contraception

Daniel S, Raifman S, Kaller S, Grossman D

Women's Experiences Using Telemedicine to Attend Abortion Information Visits in Utah: A Qualitative Study.

Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health

Ehrenreich K, Kaller S, Raifman S, Grossman D

Dualities between Tunisian provider beliefs and actions in abortion care.

Reproductive health matters

Raifman S, Hajri S, Gerdts C, Foster D

Support for and interest in alternative models of medication abortion provision among a national probability sample of U.S. women.

Contraception

Biggs MA, Ralph L, Raifman S, Foster DG, Grossman D

Comparison of Health, Development, Maternal Bonding, and Poverty Among Children Born After Denial of Abortion vs After Pregnancies Subsequent to an Abortion.

JAMA pediatrics

Foster DG, Biggs MA, Raifman S, Gipson J, Kimport K, Rocca CH

Effects of Carrying an Unwanted Pregnancy to Term on Women's Existing Children.

The Journal of pediatrics

Foster DG, Raifman SE, Gipson JD, Rocca CH, Biggs MA

Providers' perspectives on denial of abortion care in Nepal: a cross sectional study.

Reproductive health

Puri MC, Raifman S, Khanal B, Maharjan DC, Foster DG

Evaluating the capacity of California's publicly funded universities to provide medication abortion.

Contraception

Raifman S, Anderson P, Kaller S, Tober D, Grossman D

Medication abortion: Potential for improved patient access through pharmacies.

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA

Raifman S, Orlando M, Rafie S, Grossman D

'I felt the world crash down on me': Women's experiences being denied legal abortion in Colombia.

Reproductive health

DePiñeres T, Raifman S, Mora M, Villarreal C, Foster DG, Gerdts C

Women's experiences seeking informal sector abortion services in Cape Town, South Africa: a descriptive study.

BMC women's health

Gerdts C, Raifman S, Daskilewicz K, Momberg M, Roberts S, Harries J

Effect of Knowledge of Self-removability of Intrauterine Contraceptives on Uptake, Continuation, and Satisfaction.

Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health

Raifman S, Barar R, Foster D

'How shall we survive': a qualitative study of women's experiences following denial of menstrual regulation (MR) services in Bangladesh.

Reproductive health

Hossain A, Moseson H, Raifman S, Gerdts C, Biswas KK, Foster DG

Effects of relationship context on contraceptive use among young women.

Contraception

Upadhyay UD, Raifman S, Raine-Bennett T

'This Is Real Misery': Experiences of Women Denied Legal Abortion in Tunisia.

PloS one

Hajri S, Raifman S, Gerdts C, Baum S, Foster DG

Factors associated with high rates of caesarean section in Brazil between 1991 and 2006.

Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)

Raifman S, Cunha AJ, Castro MC

Comorbidities and lack of blood transfusion may negatively affect maternal outcomes of women with obstetric hemorrhage treated with NASG.

PloS one

El Ayadi A, Raifman S, Jega F, Butrick E, Ojo Y, Geller S, Miller S

Long-term trends in food availability, food prices, and obesity in Samoa.

American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council

Seiden A, Hawley NL, Schulz D, Raifman S, McGarvey ST

Postabortion care: going to scale.

International perspectives on sexual and reproductive health

RamaRao S, Townsend JW, Diop N, Raifman S

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