Biography:

Emma Stirling-Cameron is a PhD student and Killam Fellow in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. She holds a master’s degree in health promotion from Dalhousie University. Emma uses critical, community-based, mixed-methods research to explore sexual and reproductive health inequities facing refugee and asylum-seeking women. Her dissertation work is examining the impact of restrictive border policies on the perinatal and infant health outcome of asylum-seeking women and infants at the Mexico-US border. Her other research explores access to contraception and abortion care, climate justice, immigration detention, and the influence of anti-Black racism on healthcare. Emma is also a part-time lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland and a research fellow with the Centre for Migration Studies at UBC. She is also a consultant in the Department of Public Health at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and San Diego State University.