Research on abortion and contraception often excludes transgender, nonbinary, and intersex (TNBI) people due to gender-based eligibility criteria and survey instruments that misclassify or deter their participation. These inaccurate methods result in low TNBI enrollment, biased data, and high dropout contributing to uninformed providers and poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. As access to ...Read more >

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services are integral to the wellbeing of individuals and communities. However, societal dynamics of power and oppression pattern access to these services, presenting disproportionate barriers to younger people, BIPOC individuals, those with disabilities, individuals who are transgender or gender-nonconforming (TGNC), and people of lower socioeconomic status. One exacerbating factor for ...Read more >

Halina Yee, MD is currently the first year Complex Fmaily Planning Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She obtained her undergraduate degree from UCLA in Physiological Sciences, and obtained her medical degree from the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the ...Read more >

Gabrielle Taper, MD is a Complex Family Planning fellow at the University of New Mexico. She completed her medical education at UTHealth Houston, and her residency at the University of Texas at Austin. In this study, we propose a randomized controlled trial of cervical preparation method via cervical ripening balloon and buccal misoprostol (experimental group) ...Read more >

Allison Merz-Herrala, MD is a first-year Complex Family Planning Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, where she also completed OB/GYN residency training. She received her MD at Harvard Medical School, where she earned magna cum laude honors for her thesis investigating large-scale attitudes toward contraceptive methods over time on Twitter. Her research interests ...Read more >

Karen Greiner, MD, MPH is a Complex Family Planning fellow at UC San Diego. She received a Master in Public Health focusing on Epidemiology as a medical student at Oregon Health & Science University. Her research has primarily focused on cost-effectiveness analyses and retrospective cohort studies covering a range of topics including hypertensive disorders of ...Read more >

Andrea K. Contreras, MD is completing her first year in Complex Family Planning and master’s in public health at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine and her OB/GYN residency at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine and the University of Texas ...Read more >

Olivia Manayan, MD, MPH is a Complex Family Planning fellow at the University of Hawaiʻi. She completed her Master of Public Health at King’s College London and received her MD from the University of Queensland, before joining the University of Hawaiʻi to complete her residency training. In addition to providing access to abortion care, abortion ...Read more >

Objectives: We describe payor for contraceptive visits and uptake of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) during 2013 and 2014, before and after Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation, in a network of diverse Community Health Centers (CHCs) and estimate the relative contributions of the ACA, Title X, and state 1115 or SPA family planning programs to insurance ...Read more >

The goals of this study are to assess client preferences and provider perceptions of reproductive intention screening and contraceptive decision-making during primary care visits in New York State (NYS). These goals were developed collaboratively during Phase I using the Delphi Method with over 30 stakeholders, including primary care and reproductive health providers, NYS and City ...Read more >