Hayley V. McMahon, MSPH, CPH (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and a Doctoral Fellow at The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast. Her research focuses on using qualitative and community-led methods to understand social and structural barriers to abortion access in the U.S. South, with particular interests in abortion misinformation, stigma, and criminalization. She holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University, an MSPH in Health Education and Communications from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and is very proud to be a first-generation scholar from rural Appalachia.
Areas of Interest
- Community Based Research
- Health Communication
- Health Literacy
- Public Health Policy
- Reproductive Health
- Social Determinants of Health
Education
- B.A., Cultural Anthropology 2017, Duke University
- MSPH, Health Education and Health Communications 2022, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Affiliations & Activities
Doctoral Fellow, The Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE)
Board of Directors, Holler Health Justice
Publications
- McMahon, H.V. & McMahon, B.D., 2024, Automating Untruths: ChatGPT, Self-Managed Medication Abortion, and the Threat of Misinformation in a Post-Roe world, Frontiers in Digital Health, 6,
- McMahon, H.V., Serrano, L., Vyavahare, T., Hairston, I., Ayala, S., Jah, J., Hailstorks, T., Diallo, D.D., & Mosley, E.A., 2024, My Health in My Hands: Improving Medication Abortion Knowledge and Closing Disparities with a Community-Led Media Intervention, Health Equity, 8, 138-142
- McMahon, H.V., Riker, L., Broughton-Jones, H., Trotta, L., & Srinivasulu, S., 2024, Organizing Primary Care Clinicians to Expand Reproductive Health Access: A Qualitative Program Evaluation, Family Medicine, ,
- McMahon, H.V., Karp, C., Bell, S.O., Shiferaw, S., Seme, A., Yihdego, M., & Zimmerman, L.A., 2022, Availability of Postabortion Care Services in Ethiopia: Estimates from a 2020 National Sample of Public Facilities, Contraception X, ,
- McMahon, H.V., 2021, Medically Safe, Legally Risky: The Urgent Need to Decriminalize Self-Managed Abortion in the United States, Public Health Review, 4,