Sydney Sauter, PhD, MPH, is a social epidemiologist and mixed methods researcher with nearly a decade of experience in global public health. She works as a Research Data Analyst with the Center on Gender Equity and Health, providing support for the Global Family Planning Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation Consortium. Sydney’s research spans both global and domestic settings, with interests in implementation science, abortion legality and stigma, international family planning, and the social determinants of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). She has previously collaborated on SRHR research and policy efforts in East and Central Africa, South Asia, and the American Gulf South. Sydney holds a PhD in International Health and Sustainable Development and MPH in Epidemiology from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.