Dr. Walker is an Associate Professor at Anglia Ruskin University. She is a researcher and lecturer based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridgeshire and Essex. Dr. Walker's research expertise is in contraceptive and sexual and reproductive health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of sociology and health, and is particularly interested in the effects of gender and sexuality upon health behaviors.
The restriction of access to face-to-face contraceptive consultation in general practice during the first COVID-19 lockdown had a significant effect on contraceptive prescribing and provision during that time.
General practitioners in England dramatically decreased their prescriptions of the combined contraceptive pill during the first COVID-19 lockdown, and these rates have not recovered since, according to new research published in The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care.