Resident Physician
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Lauren A. Forbes, MD, MPH was raised in rural, coastal Northeastern North Carolina. She completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Working at the intersection of clinical research and public health encouraged her to earn a Medical Doctorate from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a Chief Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Upon graduation, she is thrilled to join The Ohio State University Maternal Fetal Medicine Division as an MFM Fellow.
Her research melds clinical research design and policy evaluation with public, maternal, and reproductive health epidemiology. She translates outcomes-based research into health policy by centering her work on underrepresented populations in research such as pregnant women, those with substance use disorder, and people who have abortions. She has published in the Green, Gray, White, and Pink Journals as well as JAMA affiliates and the policy compendium for the American Medical Association.
She serves on SMFM's Reproductive Health Committee where she reviewed and revised SMFM's Position Statement: Access to abortion care. Beyond SMFM, she has worked with ACOG's American Medical Association House of Delegates Delegation as ACOG District IV's Resident Delegate to protect the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship, denounce government intrusion, and establish a Task Force to intervene when state policy infringes on the patient-physician relationship.
