Where do you call home?
Originally from Washington, then California, but now consider Arizona home.
What are your clinical or research interests?
Full-spectrum care of rural communities, health equity for marginalized people, comprehensive reproductive health care, reproductive rights, and socioeconomic impacts on reproductive justice.
What do you wish other providers knew about reproductive health, rights, and justice?
Reproductive health care should remain equitable to everyone, no matter their age, race, sex, gender, geography, social, class, or immigration status. Reproductive rights are basic human rights to make decisions about one’s own body and the right to access comprehensive reproductive care. Reproductive justice extends beyond clinical care to address the intersections of social determinants of health, systemic inequity, and economic inequality that disproportionately affects marginalized communities. While similar, they distinctly form the framework for our advocacy efforts.
What local justice-centered organization do you want to uplift?
Indigenous Women Rising: a reproductive justice organization that honors Native and Indigenous People’s right to equitable and culturally safe health options, including access to abortions, contraception support, menstrual hygiene, midwifery support, as well as chest-feeding support.
What is bringing you joy?
Sex talks! Incorporating a healthy exploration of sex as a part of a normal review of systems, engaging in dialogue to explore the evolution of sex throughout life transitions.
Our Meet Our Advocates series showcases the talents and passion of one of our doctors and finds out, in their own words, what inspires them to be physician advocates. Janelle Lee (MD, MS) is a Fellow in our Leadership Training Academy Class of 2025 and specializes in Family Medicine.
