Raegan McDonald-Mosley

Raegan McDonald-Mosley is CEO of Power to Decide, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that aims to improve sexual and reproductive well-being, focusing on people facing the most barriers to information and access to services. As a physician advocate, obstetrician-gynecologist McDonald-Mosley elevates issues such as tackling health care inequities and the role of racism in differential health outcomes.

Previously, Dr. McDonald-Mosley worked in various roles at both Planned Parenthood of Maryland and Planned Parenthood Federation of America for over a decade, including serving as Chief Medical Officer for each organization. Her determination to ensure access to critical health services was born in Tanzania, where, as a college student, she travelled to study the causes of maternal mortality.

She is a founding board member of Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project, a nonprofit dedicated to addressing maternal health disparities; has been a leading national voice for a switch to over-the-counter status for oral contraception; and is a steering committee member of the Free the Pill coalition. In 2016, Dr. McDonald-Mosley received Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 award. She is also a fellow of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Dr. McDonald-Mosley earned her bachelor’s degree in African Studies, graduating with highest honors, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed her postdoctoral training in obstetrics and gynecology at the New York University Medical Center. She also completed a specialized fellowship in family planning at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, during which time she also obtained her Master’s in Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health.