Gloria Sarto Reproductive Health Equity Symposium

Tiffany Green, PhD
Director, Reproductive Equity Action Lab
Interim Director, Division of Reproductive and Population Health
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD, Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research

Camille Clare, MD, MPH
ACOG President-Elect
Vice Chair of Faculty Mentorship and Community Engagement and Outreach, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bala Bhagavath, MD
Professor and Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

Dr. Bhagavath is Professor and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) and REI fellowship director in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He completed his medical education in India, was admitted to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in the UK, and worked at the National University Hospital in Singapore before completing his US residency training at Medical College of Georgia and fellowship training at UT Southwestern in Dallas. He is board certified in Ob-Gyn and REI.  

Dr. Bhagavath has been a faculty member at Brown University and at University of Rochester before the current position. His clinical interest spans the spectrum of REI with particular focus on reproductive surgery. He routinely performs minimally invasive surgery to manage challenging fibroids, advanced endometriosis, cesarean scar defects and anomalies of the female genital system.  

Dr. Bhagavath is passionate about teaching and is a recipient of the National CREOG award for teaching. He is a past president of Society of Reproductive Surgeons and was actively involved in SRS/SREI Fellows’ Surgical Bootcamp. He has served as faculty at the SREI Fellows’ retreat and is a teaching faculty on the Surgical Scholars Track.   

Dr. Bhagavath’s research interests include fibroids, endometriosis and surgical instrumentation. He has and continues to serve on various American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and AAGL committees and is currently the cognitive committee chair for EMIGS at AAGL and serves on the Scientific Programs Committee as well as the Curriculum Committee at ASRM.  

Cheryl Casey'Grant
Outreach Specialist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Cheryl Casey’Grant was born in Brooklyn, New York and later moved to Wisconsin with her family. She has been married to Jermaine Grant for 27 years. They have raised eight children together, and they are proud grandparents of 16 grandchildren ranging from the ages of eight months to 16 years old.

Cheryl graduated from Madison College with an associate degree in Human Services; she graduated from Almeda University with a bachelor’s degree in human services with a major in Social Work and a master’s degree in social work.

Cheryl has worked in the field of human services in Madison, WI for over 30 years. She has worked with families who have experienced socioeconomic difficulties. She worked with those individuals and families to help improve their lives and their socioeconomical needs. She is currently working at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Ob-Gyn as an Outreach Specialist. In her current role, she works with doctors and community agencies to help bring information to the community on women’s health issues.

Cheryl’s main goal is to help with health disparities for black moms and other women of color experiencing hardship in Wisconsin and across the United States. Cheryl is involved with many community organizations and leadership programs, such as: African American Opioid Coalition, Homeless Consortium, Fetal Infant Mortality Review, Risked Based Care Work Group and Maternal and Infant Mortality Review Team. Cheryl works to help end health disparities and to improve healthier outcomes for children of color. 

Alejandra Ros Pilarz, PhD
Associate Professor, Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Alejandra Ros Pilarz’s research agenda aims to improve the wellbeing of working families with low-incomes through policy-relevant research. Her research examines the effects of parental employment and children’s early care and education (ECE) contexts on family wellbeing and children’s development. She also examines how child and family policies—including ECE policies, work-family policies, and income support policies—shape parents’ employment, children’s ECE contexts, and ultimately, influence child and family wellbeing. Dr. Pilarz uses a range of quantitative methods and primarily relies on large-scale, longitudinal administrative and survey data; she is also experienced in mixed methods research and primary data collection.

Dr. Pilarz’s current research projects focus on examining: (1) changing trends in mothers’ work hours and schedules and their effects on children’s ECE arrangements, mothers’ time with their children, and child health and development; (2) the effects of public policies, including pregnancy accommodation laws, on women’s employment during the period surrounding a birth and on maternal and infant health; (3) declines in regulated child care supply and child care subsidy use in Wisconsin; and (4) the effects of COVID-19 relief funding on the child care workforce in Wisconsin. Her research has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families; the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families; the Russell Sage Foundation; and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Tiffany Green, PhD
Director, Reproductive Equity Action Lab
Interim Director, Division of Reproductive and Population Health
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD, Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research