She received her medical doctorate from the University of Cambridge, her master’s in public health from Harvard University, and her doctorate in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin. She also worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Office of Population Research and a lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton University. She has been with the Texas Policy Evaluation Project since its inception and is currently involved in the Postpartum Contraception Study, the Family Planning Clinic Survey, and the Post-Abortion Contraception Study.