Dr Shelly Makleff (she/her) is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Her current research focuses on reducing abortion stigma in the health system to improve quality of care and accessibility.

Shelly is an applied researcher with a focus on collaboratively generating evidence about sexual and reproductive health to inform policy, practice, and health services globally. She has carried out research and evaluation in collaboration with partners globally over the last two decades, spanning topics including abortion, contraception, stigma, quality of care, gender-based violence prevention, and comprehensive sexuality education. She has experience with feminist and participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning practices and has worked in different contexts delivering training and capacity building, facilitating participatory Theory of Change development, and co-designing research projects.

Prior to working at University of Melbourne, Shelly worked at Respect Victoria, Monash University, and International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (now called Fos Feminista). She has a Bachelors of Science from Stanford University (USA), a Masters in Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University (USA) and a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). Her doctoral research explored methodologies and approaches for the evaluation of social interventions, based on a case study evaluating how a comprehensive sexuality education program in Mexico contributed to the prevention of intimate partner violence among young people.

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