Black Women Speak: An Abortion Storytelling Showcase

Join The UCSF Black Womxn's Health & Livelihood Initiative and Girlx Lab for Black Women Speak: An Abortion Storytelling Showcase. Listen to Black women share their stories as we journey to community healing and wellness. Food will be served and vendors will share information and products for...

What young people see as obstacles to UTI care

New research led by Jennifer Yarger, PhD, explores what young people perceive as barriers to care for UTIs.

Team Lily's innovative strategies to support pregnant people

The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforst (FORE), which awarded Team Lily one of their grants for programs developing innovative models to support people with substance use disorder, made a video highlighting the impact of their work.

New factsheet: All abortion bans harm patients

Our new resource highlights evidence showing that any limits on abortion care harm patients.

Investment needed to improve women’s pregnancy outcomes after fistula repair

New research led by Abner Korn and Alison El Ayadi of UCSF and Justus Barageine of Makerere University, Uganda, looks at the rates of pregnancy loss and stillbirth after fistula repair and what risk factors are associated with those outcomes.

What happens when someone can’t get an abortion? This play will show you

The Turnaway Study is breaking ground again —by bringing the research to life on the stage. 

Room for improvement in person-centered maternity care around the world 

Person-centered maternity care (PCMC) is respectful, responsive, and compassionate childbirth care. In a new paper by Osamuedeme Odiase and colleagues, researchers analyzed studies that use the PCMC scale around the world.

Join us for The Turnaway Play

Join the Bixby Center for a staged reading of The Turnaway Play. Based on the groundbreaking study conducted by Bixby researchers, the show tells the behind-the-scenes story of the study with humor and candor.

What physicians think about self-sourced and managed medication abortion

In a new paper, Jennifer Karlin, MD, PhD, and colleagues interviewed physicians about their attitudes toward SSMA

How the vaginal birth after cesarean section calculator “automates” racism

New research led by Nicholas Rubashkin, MD, used interviews with clinicians and patients, along with recorded prenatal visits, to analyze how the use of the VBAC calculator helped “automate” racism by coding race into institutional practices and care interactions.