Payal Chakraborty

Assistant Professor & Epidemiologist @UNC | Repro health and sexual health researcher | @OSUPublicHealth and @DukeU alum | views=own | she/her/hers

[Jonathan Powell @jreadyp]

Using national EMS data, we observed over 900 additional obstetric-related emergency activations in the first three months following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. The majority of this increase occurred in states with protective abortion policies.

https://t.co/tWSgxTzVJx

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

@aaugustine09 @greenjrnl TYSM!

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

📣 Check out our article showing disparities in neonatal outcomes by sexual orientation, now out in @greenjrnl. (1/3) https://t.co/chJScc4s7l
#epitwitter #QueerEpi #LGBTQHealth

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

This work was led by @CoRAL_DPM @HarvardChanSPH research team, @ColleenAmandaR, @Smcketta, @kodiaksoled, @AimeeHuangMD, @sbrynaustin, @SHaneuse, @britshmit, A Eliassen, J Chavarro, and @ObedinMaliver, B Monseur, J Corman, & B Everett (3/3)

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

Our findings highlight the critical need to address the structural barriers and health care needs underlying these disparities. (2/3)

[Department of Population Medicine @DeptPopMed]

.@DeptPopMed's @_payalc & team recently sought to estimate disparities in gestational diabetes & hypertensive disorders of #pregnancy by sexual orientation.

Read what they found in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology: https://t.co/NTe4Fz2QDO

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

@PSingh_OSU Wow!! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

LGB+ people continue to face discrimination and social inequities, impacting their reproductive health. Addressing the mechanisms (e.g., structural barriers and healthcare needs) underlying these disparities is critical. (6/6)

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

📣 Our team’s article, “Sexual orientation disparities in gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy,” was just published by @PPE_journal!
Article 👉 https://t.co/yIXeZ0JzqT
#epitwitter #HealthEquity #QueerEpi #LGBTQHealth (1/6)

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

Risk was elevated for gestational hypertension among bisexual and lesbian/gay participants and for preeclampsia among lesbian/gay participants. (5/6)

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

@dm_kline @WakeBDS @EmilyVDressler Congrats!! 🥳

[Aimee Huang MD, MPH @AimeeHuangMD]

📣 Our team's latest pub alert in @JournalCancer on cancer inequities impacting LGBTQ communities 🌈

🧵1/5

Article 👇https://t.co/RhTnBQyuCv

#CancerPrevention #HealthEquity #QueerEpi #LGBTQHealth

[ACS Journal Cancer @JournalCancer]

A new study led by @AimeeHuangMD et al and funded in part by an @ACS_Research grant reveals new insights on #CancerDisparities among sexual minority populations.

https://t.co/HdM2EyhXIY

@OncoAlert

[Sarah McKetta @SMcketta]

Our study, “Restrictive abortion legislation and adverse mental health during pregnancy and postpartum” by @Smcketta, @_payalc, @kodiaksoled, @taborhoatson, @arielbeccia, @ColleenAmandaR, @britshmit, Gimbrone, Huang is now published in @AnnalsofEpi https://t.co/LBT26oxHyu
(1/4)

[kodiak soled, phd (she/her) @kodiaksoled]

*NEW STUDY RESULTS* on perinatal mental health disparities among LGBTQ+ women

led by the fabulous @Smcketta & myself w/ @CoRAL_DPM @HarvardChanSPH research team @britshmit @_payalc @ColleenAmandaR @sbrynaustin @siwenwangMD @SHaneuse H. Eliassen J. Chavarro

#AcademicTwitter

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

Because LGB+ people experience many sources of social inequities, these disparities may be due to multiple mechanisms. Future work in reducing these disparities (e.g., addressing structural barriers & healthcare needs) is critical for achieving reproductive health equity. (5/5)

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

We found that LGB+ people may be at higher risk of gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and low birthweight. However, inequities differ across LGB+ subgroups. (3/5)

[Payal Chakraborty @_payalc]

For example, pregnancies to mostly heterosexual people are at 22% higher risk of gestational hypertension & offspring of lesbian people are at >2 times the risk of low birthweight. Bisexual & lesbian people experience a high burden of almost all 6 outcomes. (4/5)