Women’s Health
Gender inequities in health prevail in most countries throughout the world, despite ongoing attempts to eliminate them. Across the globe, prospects for good health among women are limited by social norms, practices, and policies that are rooted in gender discrimination and bias. The 1985 United Nations Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi was monumental in recognizing the importance of factors such as cultural ideology, legal rights, and political parity in the determinants of health and wellbeing for girls and women.
At UCSC faculty take an approach to women’s health that considers the socio-cultural context of women’s lives and structural inequities that determine both their health and health rights. We work across a wide variety of disciplines and specialities (from cancer genomics to feminist studies to psychology) to tackle the complex problems behind women’s health by focusing on issues such as well-being and agency, the bioethics of data sharing, reproductive decision-making, and violence.
Heather E Bullock
- Title
- Director, Center for Economic Justice and Action
- Department
- Psychology Department
- Campus Email
Melissa L Caldwell
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- she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Anthropology Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Russia
Nancy N Chen
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Anthropology Department
- Campus Email
Omar Eduardo Cornejo Ordaz
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- he, him, his, his, himself
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Evolution
Shelly A Grabe
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Psychology Department
- Campus Email
Ahmed Hamdy
- Title
- Adjunct Professor
- Department
- Biomolecular Engineering
- Campus Email
Lindsay Hinck
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Developmental Biology

Audrie Lin
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- she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Health and Wellness
Christie G Mccullen
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- she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Lecturer
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Campus Email
Megan Colleen Moodie
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- she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Anthropology Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Ethnography
Jaimie Morse
- Pronouns
- she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Campus Email
- Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Sociology
Laura Sanchez
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Campus Email
Shaheen Shabbir Sikandar
- Campus Email

Jennifer Taylor
- Title
- Professor of Social Documentation
- Department
- Film and Digital Media Department
- Campus Email
Anna L Tsing
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Anthropology Department
- Campus Email
