Tracy Weitz, PhD, MPA

Assistant Adjunct Professor
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Director, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)
Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health

Email: weitzt@obgyn.ucsf.edu

Biosketch:

Tracy Weitz, PhD, MPA, is the Director of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, both at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). ANSIRH's mission is to ensure that reproductive health care and policy are grounded in evidence. Dr. Weitz has a master's degree in public administration with an emphasis in health care from Southwest Missouri State University and a doctoral degree in medical sociology from UCSF.

Dr. Weitz's passion is for those aspects of women's health which are marginalized either for ideological reasons, or because the populations affected lack the means or mechanisms to have their concerns raised. Her current research focuses on innovative strategies to expand abortion provision in the U.S. Included in her research portfolio is a demonstration project of the use of advanced practice clinicians as providers of abortion care in California, several studies of abortion regulation, and a national strategic plan to secure access to second-trimester abortion care. She also collaborates with the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) on a project examining the effect of health care refusals on the standards of care for women's health. Finally, she serves on the EJ-RJ Collaborative of the California Women's Foundation, exploring the intersection of environmental justice and reproductive justice.

In 1999 Dr. Weitz received the UCSF Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women. In 2001 she was named a Tish Sommers scholar and in 2004 she was selected as a fellow for the Communcations Leadership Institute in Washington, DC and the Women's Policy Institute in Sacramento, CA. In 2006, Dr. Weitz was appointed by Governor Schwartzenegger to the Women's Health Council, an advisory body to the California Department of Health Services. In 2008 she received the Felicia Stewart award from the Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health section of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Weitz previously served on the board of the National Women's History Project and the California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (CARAL, now NARAL Pro-Choice California) and is a current Board Member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California.

Areas of Interest:

• Abortion
• Asian and Pacific Islander Populations
• Childfree Living
• Gender
• Healthcare systems
• Leadership
• Qualitative Methods

Publications on PubMed


Updated January 2009