Steph Herold

Research Analyst
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Steph Herold, MPH, is a Researcher who studies the portrayal of abortion on television and in film as part of the Abortion Onscreen team at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health. Steph has over fifteen years of experience in the reproductive health, rights, and justice fields, and has won several awards, including the Rosie Jimenez Award from the Women’s Medical Fund. Steph has co-authored a dozen peer-reviewed publications and grey literature papers mainly focusing on abortion in popular culture, abortion stigma, and self-managed abortion. Steph currently serves on the Board of Directors of All-Options. Her past board tenure includes serving on the Advisory Board of ReproAction, the Board of Directors of the New York Abortion Access Fund, the inaugural Steering Committee of the International Network for the Reduction of Abortion Discrimination and Stigma, and the Board of Directors of ACCESS: Women’s Health Justice. Steph earned her MPH from Columbia University and her BA from Bryn Mawr College.

Publications: 

“You can’t tell this story without abortion”: television creators on narrative intention and development of abortion stories on their shows

“You can’t tell this story without abortion”: television creators on narrative intention and development of abortion stories on their shows

Stephanie Herold
Gretchen Sisson

Abortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action

When Stories Are All We Have: The Role of Television in a Future in Which Abortion is Illegal

Stephanie Herold
Gretchen Sisson

Hollywood's Role in Stigmatizing Abortion

The American Prospect

Stephanie Herold

Increased Visibility, Increasing Restrictions: Abortion on TV

Los Angeles Review of Books

Lauren Herold
Steph Herold

Prime-time abortion on Grey's Anatomy: What do US viewers learn from fictional portrayals of abortion on television?

Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health

Sisson G, Walter N, Herold S, Brooks JJ

“I can’t believe your mixed ass wasn’t on the pill!”: race and abortion on American scripted television, 2008-2019

“I can’t believe your mixed ass wasn’t on the pill!”: race and abortion on American scripted television, 2008-2019

Stephanie Herold
Gretchen Sisson
Renee Bracey Sherman

Experiences of harassment and empowerment after sharing personal abortion stories publicly.

Contraception: X

Woodruff K, Schroeder R, Herold S, Roberts SCM, Berglas NF

Self-managed abortion: A systematic scoping review.

Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology

Moseson H, Herold S, Filippa S, Barr-Walker J, Baum SE, Gerdts C

Hangers, Potions, and Pills: Abortion Procedures on American Television, 2008 to 2018.

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

Herold S, Sisson G

Women's Private Conversations about Abortion: A Qualitative Study.

Women & health

Herold S, Kimport K, Cockrill K

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