Emory Reproductive Health Association (ERHA) Presents:

Staci Fox

Planned​ ​Parenthood​ ​Southeast

President​ ​&​ ​Chief​ ​Executive​ ​Officer

​​Keynote Address

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Staci Fox serves as president and chief executive officer (CEO) for Planned Parenthood Southeast (PPSE). PPSE is a nonprofit organization that provides vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to people across Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Staci also serves as president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates, a 501(c)4 organization, and as Chair of the Vote Choice Steering Committee, a PAC focused on electing candidates who support reproductive choice. Staci​ ​has​ ​been​ ​a​ ​leader​ ​in​ ​the​ ​fields​ ​of​ ​family​ ​planning​ ​and​ ​reproductive​ ​health​ ​for​ ​more​ ​than​ ​20 years,​ ​having​ ​previously​ ​served​ ​as​ ​president​ ​and​ ​CEO​ ​for​ ​Planned​ ​Parenthood​ ​of​ ​North​ ​Florida. 

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A​ ​native​ ​of​ ​Georgia,​ ​Staci​ ​returned​ ​to​ ​her​ ​home​ ​state​ ​in​ ​2013​ ​to​ ​lead​ ​PPSE.​ ​Since​ ​that​ ​time, Staci​ ​has​ ​guided​ ​the​ ​organization​ ​through​ ​numerous​ ​political​ ​attacks​ ​and​ ​economic​ ​hurdles, while​ ​ensuring​ ​PPSE’s​ ​patients​ ​continue​ ​to​ ​have​ ​access​ ​to​ ​quality,​ ​non-judgemental​ ​care​ ​-​ ​no matter​ ​what. 

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Staci​ ​is​ ​a​ ​graduate​ ​of​ ​the​ ​University​ ​of​ ​Georgia.​ ​She​ ​is​ ​also​ ​an​ ​alumna​ ​of​ ​Leadership​ ​Atlanta and​ ​the​ ​Strategic​ ​Perspectives​ ​in​ ​Nonprofit​ ​Management​ ​program​ ​at​ ​Harvard​ ​Business​ ​School.

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Jesse Rattan

CARE

Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies

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Jesse Rattan is the Director, Sexual, Reproductive Health in Crisis and Emergencies Program. Jesse earned her undergraduate degree in English from Vassar College, her nursing degree from Johns Hopkins University, and her MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Central African Republic and has worked in Haiti, Kosovo and East Timor. During her tenure at CARE, she has worked as the Health Sector coordinator in Cambodia, a proposal development coordinator in the Competitive Bids Unit, as a Senior Technical Advisor for Mothers Matter, and then Project Director for the SAFPAC initiative on the SRMH team. As the director of this initiative, Supporting Access to Family Planning and Post-abortion Care (SAFPAC), she has led the design and implementation of a 50 million dollar reproductive health program in crisis-affected countries. Core activities are implemented in Chad, DRC, Pakistan, Nigeria and Mali with smaller programming in Cameroon and Niger. The program also focuses on readiness and capacity building in West Africa, Great Lakes, Asia and MENA regions. In this role, she manages a team of 10 and works closely with field-based project managers, senior country office leadership, government and non-governmental partners. After the first phase of the initiative, she successfully secured increasing amounts of funding for phase 2 (2013-2015) and for phase 3 (2016-2018). She also recently oversaw the publication of two major papers from the SAFPAC initiative on CARE’s success in increasing access to and use of long-acting methods of contraception in crisis-affected settings—the results were referred to as “stunning” in an editorial that accompanied the publications.

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Kwajelyn Jackson, MS

Feminist Women's Health Center

Community Education & Advocacy Director

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Kwajelyn currently serves as the Community Education & Advocacy Director at Feminist Women's Health Center (FWHC) in Atlanta, GA, where she manages volunteer engagement, leadership development, education programs, community outreach, and legislative advocacy work to improve reproductive health, rights and justice in Georgia. She began with FWHC in the summer of 2013, and has since committed to expanding FWHC’s statewide impact and deepening its community partnerships. Kwajelyn also sits on the board of directors for Backline, Abortion Care Network, Soul Food Cypher, and ProGeorgia, and the steering committee for the Black Mamas Matter Alliance and the Mife Coalition. Prior to joining FWHC, she spent three years as the Program Manager for WonderRoot Community Arts Center and eight years as a Credit Risk Manager with Wachovia Bank's Community Development Finance Group. She has a BA in economics from Spelman College and an MS in urban policy studies from the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University. 

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Carol J. Rowland Hogue, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Epidemiology

Jules & Uldeen Terry Professor of Maternal and Child Health

Rollins School of Public Health 

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Dr. Hogue also serves as the Director of the Women's and Children's Center and the HRSA-sponsored Center of Excellence in MCH Education, Science, and Practice. A former Director of the federal Centers for Disease Control, Division of Reproductive Health (1988-92) and on faculties in Biometry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science (1977-82) and the UNC School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics (1974-77), Dr. Hogue initiated many of the current CDC reproductive health programs, including the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, the National Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System, and the National Infant Mortality Surveillance project that launched the national and state-level development and use of linked birth and death records. In addition, Dr. Hogue led the first research on maternal morbidities that was the precursor to the current safe motherhood initiative, and the initial innovative research on racial disparities in preterm delivery. She has published broadly in maternal health, including studies of long-term complications of induced abortion, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, unintended pregnancy, contraceptive failure, and reproductive cancers. Her current research projects include the Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network's population-based case-control study of stillbirth, an implementation fidelity study of elementary school-based health centers and a CDC-sponsored study of life course health of adolescents and adults living with congenital heart defects. Among her many honors, Dr. Hogue served as President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (1988-89), served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Unintended Pregnancy (1993-1995), was Chair of the Regional Advisory Panel for the Americas of the World Health Organization Human Reproduction Programme (1997-99), President of the American College of Epidemiology (2002-4), Senior Fellow of the Emory Center for the Study of Law and Religion (2001-6), and received the MCH Coalition’s National Effective Practice Award in 2002 and Greg Alexander Award for Advancing Knowledge in 2016. In 2017 she received Emory University’s Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor awarded a faculty member.

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