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Associate Professor
Oregon Health & Science University
Maria I. Rodriguez, MD MPH is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University and the Medical Director for the state of Oregon’s Reproductive program. She is Deputy Editor of the Cochrane Fertility Regulation Group, newly housed at OHSU. She completed medical school and residency at OHSU (2004, 2008), and a fellowship in Complex Family Planning at UCSF. As part of her fellowship, she completed a Master’s in Public Health at UC Berkeley (2010). Following her fellowship, she spent five years working for the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization is in Geneva, Switzerland. She serves as chair of Oregon’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
Dr. Rodriguez’s research focuses on the intersection of medicine, policy and economics. She is specifically interested in generating information to help guide evidence based reproductive health policy both domestically and internationally. She has expertise in cost effectiveness, health systems and policy research, systematic reviews and GRADE methodologies. With funding from the Saving Lives at Birth Initiative, she has adapted a trauma device for non-compressible hemorrhage on the battlefield for use in postpartum hemorrhage.
Her research has been nationally recognized with the Guttmacher Institute’s Darroch Award for Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research and the Society of Family Planning’s Beacon of Science Award in 2019. Maria is currently looking at how Medicaid policy nationally influences contraceptive use and reproductive health disparities.