About Us

Reproductive Health Equity Now (RHEN) at the Yale School of Public Health is a student-led group dedicated to advocating, mobilizing, and organizing around total reproductive healthcare equity on-campus, in the US, and globally. We recognize that as future public health professionals, we play a critical role in ensuring reproductive rights, access, and justice for all. Through peer-to-peer education, engagement, and action, collaboration with academic and community partners, and learning from the women and femmes of color at the forefront of this movement, we work to progress access to all reproductive healthcare—birth control, abortion, and gender-affirming care included. We recognize the intersectionality of this work and strive to also utilize a reproductive justice framework. Reproductive justice was developed in 1994 by the group "Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice," and is defined as "the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities" (SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective). Reproductive healthcare equity is a part of reproductive justice and focuses on creating a more equitable healthcare system for those who have been marginalized. In working towards this goal, we hope to add to this larger movement for mutual and collective justice.