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.

Global work to improve birth outcomes could help reduce racial disparities in the U.S.

The maternal mortality rate in the United States exceeds that of any other developed country and it increased significantly in 2020, according to a new analysis.

Young women in Africa want choice in HIV prevention

Nearly all adolescent girls and young women in a new study accepted one of two HIV prevention products they were offered.

Risk factors for dual burden of severe maternal health problems and preterm birth vary by insurance type

New research from Alison El Ayadi, ScD, and colleagues sought to understand how the risk factors of dual burden of severe maternal morbidity and preterm birth varied by insurance type.