Julia R. Steinberg

Julia Steinberg's research is at the intersection of mental and reproductive health and has largely focused on family planning. One line of research, which has important policy and clinical implications, examines whether abortion causes or increases the risk of mental health problems. Another line of research examines the role of mental health in unintended pregnancy. Steinberg received a PhD in social psychology in 2008 from Arizona State University and completed the Charlotte-Ellertson postdoctoral fellow in reproductive health from 2008 to 2011 in the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Steinberg then was a faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF from 2011 to 2014. In January 2015, she joined the Department of Family Science.