Chor, an investigator with the UChicago Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM), started studying reproductive health disparities among poor and minority women as part of an award from the ITM that gives junior researchers salary support and protected time to explore the research of their choice.
Her project took her to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County to study the effectiveness of full-spectrum doulas, lay people who help women with a variety of reproductive issues ranging from childbirth and miscarriages to adoptions or abortions, in a high-volume, urban hospital that serves a large minority population of those in poverty. As the former Assistant Director of Family Planning at Stroger, Chor said that many women who seek services there have multiple unintended pregnancies.
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