Editorial Board
Heike Thiel de Bocanegra
Professor, University of California, Irvine, Irvine · United States
Editorial leadership for Journal of Women's Reproductive Health ISSN 2381-862X
Research interests
- Women's Health
- Access To Primary Care
- Quality
- Health Services Research
- Immigrant Health
Biography
- Heike Thiel de Bocanegra, PhD, MPH, is Assistant Professor at the Bixby Center for Global Health, University of California, San Francisco.
- She has been the director of UCS’s evaluation of California’s Family PACT (Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment) Program since 2005. Family PACT is administered by the California Department of Health Care Services, Office of Family Planning.
- Heike is principal investigator of a medical chart review of the quality of family planning services among primary care providers and the evaluation of the Bedsider website to remind women of their family planning appointment and contraceptive refill.
- Prior to moving to California, Heike conducted applied health service research projects and program evaluation with a focus on immigrants, refugees and victims of crime, trauma, and violence in New York.
- Internationally, she oversaw program implementation, evaluation and policy work in Peru, where she also lived for seven years, Kosovo, Vietnam, South Africa, and Mexico.
- Heike obtained her MA in psychology from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her doctoral degree in public health from New York University.
- Her doctoral dissertation explored predictors of breastfeeding among immigrant women in New York City.
Selected publications
- Refugee women's experiences with contraceptive care after resettlement in high-income countries: A critical interpretive synthesis 2022 cited 21×
- “It's a horrible assignment”: A qualitative study of labor and delivery nurses’ experience caring for patients undergoing labor induction for fetal anomalies or fetal demise 2021 cited 12×
- Impact of an educational tool on young women’s knowledge of cervical cancer screening recommendations 2022 cited 11×
- Refugee Women’s Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2022 cited 5×
- Contraception and Amenorrhea: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study on Acceptability in Filipino/Filipino-American Women Recent 2026
- Patient Experiences and Behavioral Changes Following Cardiovascular Risk Assessment During Pregnancy and Postpartum Recent 2025
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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