Corinne Rocca, PhD, MPH, Professor

Corinne Rocca (she/her) is Professor in UCSF’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and faculty at the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program. An epidemiologist by training, her work brings rigorous scientific evidence to the improvement of policies and clinical practice around contraception and abortion. Her research focuses on investigating pregnancy desires and reproductive well-being within the context of people’s relationships and lives. She employs advanced psychometric techniques, including item response modeling, to improve the measurement of latent social and attitudinal variables to better understand how they shape contraceptive and pregnancy decisions. For instance, her work is advancing how researchers conceptualize and measure pregnancy preferences, allowing for ambivalence and uncertainty. Dr. Rocca is leading the ADAPT Study, a longitudinal study examining pregnancy decision-making and care seeking, and the consequences of less desired pregnancy for people’s well-being. She has an MPH from Columbia University and a PhD from UC Berkeley and is a former NICHD Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) scholar.