Health care provider decision making on reporting prenatal substance use

Researchers from ANSIRH conducted in-depth interviews with hospital-based healthcare providers to understand factors that contribute to their decision making related to reporting people’s substance use to government health authorities, police or CPS.

Telemedicine for birth control feels difficult for young adults experiencing food and housing insecurity

A new study from Beyond the Pill looked at whether young adults who had trouble accessing basic needs like food and housing would feel like they could use telemedicine for birth control.

Centering Black women’s abortion experiences

New research from Dr. Katherine Brown and team provides an alternative by centering the experiences of Black women and working to understand how they experience abortion care and the impact of structural racism on those experiences.

Meet Purba Chatterjee, connector working to decolonize global health

Purba Chatterjee's contribution in the decades since has been vast, spanning the United States to Uganda, Kenya, and India, and helping to build successful public health programs from the ground up.

Clinics’ challenges providing birth control during the pandemic

Researchers from Beyond the Pill surveyed clinicians and staff to understand the challenges providers have faced in meetings patients’ needs for birth control and how they adapted clinical care during the pandemic.

Almost half of US ob-gyn residents won’t get abortion training if Roe v. Wade is overturned

In a new paper co-authored by Bixby members, researchers mapped ob-gyn residency programs across the US and highlighted those in states hostile to abortion access.

Lifting FDA regulations could help family doctors provide medication abortion

Bixby Center researchers and colleagues looked at the burden of the REMS as part of a study exploring how family medicine values can be used to encourage family physicians to integrate medication abortion into their practices. 

Prenatal care is crucial to preventing congenital syphilis

New research analyzing data on pregnant people with syphilis and their infants in California found that receiving late or no prenatal care, early stage of syphilis, and living in Central California were linked to congenital syphilis.

Toward abolition medicine

Bixby members Monica Hahn, MD, and Nicholas Rubashkin, MD, contributed to the AMA Journal of Ethics issue Toward Abolition Medicine. 

Asking more questions leads to higher accuracy in self-assessment of pregnancy duration

ANSIRH set out to find out if more or different questions about the timing of the pregnancy could reduce uncertainty and therefore reduce the need for in-person testing.