Liz Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA, is a nationally recognized scholar on reproductive and perinatal health law and policy who regularly collaborates with public health researchers and clinicians. Her research focuses on the Black maternal health crisis, post-Dobbs maternal health policy, the effects of abortion bans on people experiencing reproductive coercion and intimate partner violence, and legal and clinical interpretations of abortion bans in emergency care.

Her scholarship appears in premier journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, and The Lancet. She is the author of two books on health justice and teaches courses on reproductive justice, public health law, and health justice. Professor Tobin-Tyler serves on Rhode Island's Pregnancy and Postpartum Death Review Committee and has participated on dozens of national, state, and community-based advisory boards and committees.