Professor
University of California, San Francisco
Sarah CM Roberts, DrPH, is an Assistant Professor at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences. Her research interests include policies that affect women’s reproductive lives including both state-level abortion restrictions and state-level policies targeting alcohol and drug use during pregnancy. Dr. Roberts’ current substance use-related research focuses on the relationship between alcohol and drug use and abortion as well as the effects of policies targeting alcohol use during pregnancy. Her previous substance use-related research focused on barriers to prenatal care for women using drugs and racial disparities in Child Protective Services reporting related to maternal drug use.