Articles
Jon Snow, Reproductive Health Hero?, Jezebel, September 2017
Fast Facts about Emergency Contraception, Nurx, June 2017
Not-So-Magic-Bullets: Searching for Better Policies to Govern Drug Discovery, Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange, August 2016.
Should All Women Be Taking Folic Acid?, Kinsey Confidential, August 7, 2015
Publications & Presentations
Cabral M, Schroeder R, Armstrong E, El Ayadi A, Gurel, A, Chang J, Harper CC, "Educational Aspirations, Pregnancy Intentions, and Contraceptive Knowledge among Community College Students." Under review.
Speidel J, Gurel A, “The complicated history of inventing medication abortion.” Presentation to the UCSF Bixby Center Abortion Discussion Group, December 2017, San Francisco.
Gürel A, Schroeder R, Blum M, Cabral M, El Ayadi A, Folse C, Wijangco I, Harper CC. Contraception and community colleges: How do we ensure high-quality, comprehensive, and accessible birth control education to meet student needs? Meetings of the American Public Health Association, Oct 2016, Denver, CO.*
Cabral M, Armstrong E, Blum M, Schroeder R, Gürel A, Lesyna K, Harper CC. “It’s safe, right?” What community college students know, don’t know and think they know about birth control. North American Forum on Family Planning, Nov 2016, Denver, CO.
Stokes LR, Coventry, A, Gürel A; Stewart A; Young, M. “Gender Role Constructs and Women’s Sexual Health: A Review of the Literature.” Under review.
*Award for the Population, Reproductive, and Sexual Health Section posters
Research Projects
"The Demand for IUDs: Making a 'Respectable' Alternative for Oral Contraception in Britain, 1962-86", M.Phil. Dissertation, June 2016
"Debating the Link Between Obstetric Radiography and Childhood Cancer in Britain, 1954-62", M.Phil. Essay, March 2016
"Evidence and Authority in Infanticide Trials at the Old Bailey, 1674-1734", M.Phil. Essay, January 2016
"'Race Poison' to 'Supreme Selfishness': Constructions of Alcohol-Related Foetal Risk in British Newspapers from 1918-2008", M.Phil. Essay, December 2015
"Conflict and Cooperation: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Relationship with the Medical and Nursing Schools of São Paulo, 1916-1944", undergraduate thesis, May 2015