Rana Barar
Associate Program Director
CTSI
School of Medicine

She strives to be a reproductive justice ally deeply committed to dismantling White Supremacy and challenging racist and patriarchal structures to create just workspaces.

She is currently Senior Program Manager for the Community Engagement, Integrating Special Populations and Impacting Policy and Practice Through Accelerating Translation (IMPACT) programs at UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). She is also a Director for the School of Medicine's Differences Matter Initiative focusing on diversifying science and medicine.

Prior to joining CTSI to lead structural change initiatives to ensure that the research done by the University advances health equity, Rana was Senior Project Director at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), a research group focused on social science research on abortion and contraception. Rana co-directed the Turnaway Study, featured in the book The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having--Or Being Denied--An Abortion, and oversaw a range of studies on the safety and acceptability of alternative methods of provision of medication abortion. She also led ANSIRH’s first anti-racism initiative aimed at changing the recruitment and hiring processes and was a longtime member of the OB/GYN Department’s DEI Committee.

Before coming to UCSF, Rana worked in teen sexual health, and in international health and human rights and maternal mortality reduction at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She has an MPH in population and family health from Columbia and a BA in French and Political Science from Drew University in New Jersey. Rana is a periodic contributor on reproductive health and abortion to Rewire, has appeared on KQED’s Perspectives, and loves to travel. Her expertise lies in translating research for advocacy, designing and implementing rigorous qualitative and quantitative research, budget development and oversight, and building trust to support diverse and inclusive teams.

• Accuracy of self-assessment of gestational duration among people seeking abortion.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2021 Ralph LJ, Ehrenreich K, Barar R, Biggs MA, Morris N, Blanchard K, Kapp N, Moayedi G, Perritt J, Raymond EG, White K, Grossman D
• Home pregnancy test use and timing of pregnancy confirmation among people seeking health care.
  Contraception 2021 Ralph LJ, Foster DG, Barar R, Rocca CH
• Five-Year Suicidal Ideation Trajectories Among Women Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2018 Biggs MA, Gould H, Barar RE, Foster DG
• Effect of Knowledge of Self-removability of Intrauterine Contraceptives on Uptake, Continuation, and Satisfaction.
  Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 2017 Raifman S, Barar R, Foster D
• Interest in and experience with IUD self-removal.
  Contraception 2014 Foster DG, Grossman D, Turok DK, Peipert JF, Prine L, Schreiber CA, Jackson AV, Barar RE, Schwarz EB
• Predictors of abortion counseling receipt and helpfulness in the United States.
  Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 2013 Gould H, Foster DG, Perrucci AC, Barar RE, Roberts SC
• Patient education and emotional support practices in abortion care facilities in the United States.
  Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 2012 Gould H, Perrucci A, Barar R, Sinkford D, Foster DG
• Formative research on MySpace: online methods to engage hard-to-reach populations.
  Journal of health communication 2011 Levine D, Madsen A, Wright E, Barar RE, Santelli J, Bull S
• Choice in planning and experiencing childbirth.
  The virtual mentor : VM 2004 Freedman LP, Barar RE, Drobnik AM