Laura Schummers

CIHR Patient-Oriented Research Leadership Fellow

Contraception & Abortion Research Team, Family Practice

Dr. Laura Schummers is a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist. After completing her Doctor of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Schummers joined the Contraception and Abortion Research Team in the Department of Family Practice at UBC as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Schummers’s research uses large population-based administrative health databases to examine health services, policy, and clinical research questions related to women’s reproductive and perinatal health and integrated knowledge translation methods to translate findings to practice and policy. She holds a CIHR Patient-Oriented Research Leadership award and a Research Trainee award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and is a Trainee with ICES McMaster. Her current work focuses on the impact of the Canada’s uniquely deregulated policies for the medical abortion drug mifepristone on abortion access, outcomes, and costs, optimal pregnancy spacing for high-risk obstetric populations, and postpartum opioid prescribing.

Research Interests

  • "Reproductive and perinatal population health, Reproductive and perinatal health services and policy, Patient-oriented research, Population-based administrative health data "

Centre for Research on Equity and Justice in Perinatal Services

Vancouver, BC Canada

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