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Meet Purba Chatterjee, connector working to decolonize global health

May 18, 2022
Serving as an HIV counselor in San Francisco at the height of the HIV epidemic helped Purba Chatterjee connect with her calling. Since growing up in India, she had always been interested in health but didn’t quite know how to make it a career. After taking a course on the biology of AIDS as an...

Texas gives us a glimpse into a world without abortion care training

Los Angeles Times | May 13, 2022
Jody Steinauer wrote about working to move Texas ob-gyn residents out of state for abortion training and what it tells us about the post-Roe future for providers and patients.

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

April 28, 2022
April 28, 2022 By the end of June, the Supreme Court will issue a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a direct challenge to the right to abortion protected by Roe v. Wade. If Roe is overturned, 26 states are certain or likely to ban abortion.

Lifting FDA regulations could help family doctors provide medication abortion

April 20, 2022
April 20, 2022 In 2000, the Federal Drug Administration approved mifepristone for medication abortion. Many advocates hoped that the availability of the drug would allow primary care clinicians to integrate abortion services in their practices. However, more than 20 years later, most abortions...

Prenatal care is crucial to preventing congenital syphilis

April 13, 2022
April 13, 2022 Congenital syphilis—syphilis that is passed to a fetus while someone is pregnant—is increasing in the United States. If it goes untreated, it can lead to stillbirth, preterm birth and physical and neurological deficits. Treatment is effective almost 100% of the time when it’s given...

Toward abolition medicine

April 06, 2022
April 6, 2022 Bixby members Monica Hahn and Nicholas Rubashkin contributed to the AMA Journal of Ethics issue Toward Abolition Medicine. Issue editor Osagie K. Obasogie writes about the need to center equity, inclusion and belonging, and that the journal issue “provides an opportunity to continue...

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

March 10, 2022
Originally posted at the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences March 10, 2022 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. Outcomes are particularly troubling for Black women,...

Amid abortion rights threat, OB-GYNs more vocal with support

Associated Press | March 10, 2022
Bixby members Jody Steinauer, Carole Joffe and Philip Darney talked to the Associated Press about growing vocal support for abortion care among ob-gyns.   

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