She completed her residency and family planning fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco and her MPH at University of California, Berkeley. Dr Benfield has worked in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for the past 4 years where she has developed an academic collaborative research and clinical training program with research interests that include the integration of contraceptive counseling, access, and distribution into medical care for high-risk women, uro-genital fistula, and methods to optimize evidence-based clinical training and the use of health technologies such as ICT and ultrasound in low-resource settings.