Thinking

Selected media and writing that reflect how I think about innovation, scale, and the conditions required to turn promising approaches into lasting impact.

MEDIA

Breakthrough Accelerator: An Inside Look | Cohort 1

An introduction to the Breakthrough Accelerator and the innovators behind it, including Cohort 1 teams reflecting on what the program meant to their work and how it shaped their approach to solving complex adolescent health challenges.

WRITING

Catalyzing Technology-Based Innovation in Teen Pregnancy Prevention: An Implementation Model and Findings from a Human-Centered Design Initiative

Prevention Science | Co-Author

An examination of what it takes to apply human-centered design principles to early-stage innovation development in a public health context, and what that process reveals about the conditions required for technology-based solutions to move from concept to implementation. This work directly informed how I think about accelerator design and the support innovators need at the earliest and most uncertain stages of their work.

Addressing Evaluation Barriers with Early Innovation Development for Adolescent-Focused Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions

Prevention Science | Co-Author

One of the persistent challenges in scaling public health innovations is that traditional evaluation frameworks aren't built for early-stage work because they assume a level of development and stability that most emerging approaches haven't yet achieved. This piece examines that tension and proposes a more adaptive approach to evaluation that meets innovators where they are.

Reproductive Well-Being: A Framework for Expanding Contraceptive Access

American Journal of Public Health | Lead Author

Reproductive well-being means that all people have equitable access to the information, services, systems, and support they need to have control over their bodies and to make their own decisions related to sexuality and reproduction throughout their lives — no matter who they are or where they live. This article, which I led, introduced and operationalized a framework developed through extensive research and interviews with more than 300 stakeholders that has since shaped how organizations, funders, and policymakers across the field define and work toward that vision.

What is contraceptive access? A comprehensive, multi-level framework to inform research, policy, and practice

Contraception | Second Author

A conceptual framework for understanding and operationalizing contraceptive access as a systemic rather than individual challenge, one that requires coordinated action across policy, clinical practice, and community infrastructure. This framework has been influential in shaping how the field approaches access as a design and systems problem rather than a supply problem.