Salish Harrison is a policy analyst at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. He works on the evaluation team of several projects focused on youth sexual and reproductive health throughout the state of California. Currently he is part of the evaluation team for State of California’s PREP activities and is part of the designing of a sexual health intervention that combines traditional classroom instruction with wraparound digital technologies as part of a PREIS grant.
Abigail Gutmann-Gonzalez is a project director at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Currently, she evaluates the Adolescent Sexual Health program sponsored by the California Department of Public Health’s Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) division and a PREIS funded sexual health intervention that combines traditional classroom instruction with digital technologies.
Dr. Juliana Friend is a medical anthropologist specializing in ethnographic and community-engaged qualitative research. Drawing on expertise in digital health, bioethics, and privacy studies, Dr. Friend's work addresses the intersection of tech policy and health policy and aims to amplify the perspectives of diverse constituents on how to amplify the benefits of emerging technologies while minimizing potential harms.
Ariel Eastburn McCormick is a Research Coordinator with the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) and 2023 Bixby Advocacy and Communications Fellow. She received her M.A. in Applied Anthropology (with a focus in Medical Anthropology) from Humboldt State where she conducted a qualitative study of maternal health care access in Santa Clara County. Ariel has been a longtime advocate of Reproductive Justice through her past work with menstrual equity organizations and as a full-spectrum doula-in-training.
Julia Duray (she/her) is the Education and Communications Coordinator for Beyond the Pill, working across the team to support overall program communications for BTP. She also works closely with the training team to develop educational resources and programs on contraceptive care. Previously, she was the Digital Communications Assistant and Conference Coordinator for The Global Health Network at the University of Oxford.