Abortion Access Researcher

Amanda Debuo Der is a Fulbright scholar and recent MPH graduate in Global Health from the University of Washington (UW). Originally from Ghana, she brings six years of reproductive and sexual health research and practice across the U.S., Ghana, and Senegal, including work as a public health officer with Ghana Ministry of Health and, most recently, a qualitative study at UW Department of Family Medicine on patients traveling out of state for first-trimester abortion after Dobbs, which she presented at the National Abortion Federation Annual Meeting in April 2026. She also holds an MSc in Bioethics from the University of Ghana, where her thesis explored the perspectives of providers delivering comprehensive abortion care to adolescents. Reproductive justice and health equity have anchored Amanda’s career from her earliest research to today, a commitment that continues to deepen as she joins Northwest Reproductive Equity to help expand access for the communities most often left out of the conversation.