Her research interests include women’s health, family planning, implementation science, and racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in adverse birth outcomes. Dr. Rankin is part of an interdisciplinary team investigating women’s utilization of the postpartum visit and effective postpartum contraception. She also partners to evaluate the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program and is a member of the State Perinatal Services Committee of the March of Dimes Illinois Chapter. She teaches courses in pediatric epidemiology, intermediate epidemiologic methods, and advanced analytic methods in MCH epidemiology and provides continuing education and technical assistance to applied MCH epidemiologists in state and local health agencies.