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Anja McLeod is the 2024 winner of the Leon & Rose Zitner Prize, awarded annually by Dal's Healthy Populations Institute to a student who is making outstanding contributions to citizen knowledge and community engagement in health. Anja’s extensive body of work includes community-based research, advocacy, knowledge mobilization activities and resources to address reproductive health equity, primarily among people experiencing incarceration, with a focus on the role that doulas could play in mitigating barriers to care. Her thesis, supervised by Dr. Fiona Martin, is titled Community-based doulas in Nova Scotia: Defining the meaning of care at the intersection of reproductive justice and biomedicine. Anja bridges academia and the non-profit sector, where she works in knowledge translation and mobilization to influence policy and improve access to reproductive health.