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Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Interdisciplinary School of Health sciences

Contact Information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (2316)
Cell: 617-417-9974
E-mail: angel.foster@uottawa.ca
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Preferred Method of Contact:

E-mail

Research Information:

Dr. Angel M. Foster holds a DPhil (doctorate) in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an AM (master's degree) from Stanford University. She has conducted multi-methods research on women’s health in Burma, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Thailand, Tunisia, and the United States. Her current research focuses on expanding access to emergency contraception, increasing access to safe, high quality, and affordable abortion services, improving the reproductive health training of health service professionals, and Identifying and addressing the reproductive health needs of vulnerable populations including young/unmarried women and refugees/displaced women. She has published more than 50 articles, book chapters, and technical reports on women's health and her first book, Emergency contraception: The story of a global reproductive health technology, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2012 (co-edited with L.L. Wynn). Her next book, Abortion pills, test tube babies & sex toys: Emerging sexual and reproductive health technologies in the Middle East and North Africa, will soon be published by Vanderbilt University Press.

Areas of Expertise:

• Abortion
• Anthropology
• Ethics
• Health
• Health policy
• Health research
• International development
• International health
• Middle East
• Other
• Population health
• Women and development
• Women and health
• Women’s health

Language Preference:

French and English, Arabic