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 >

Objectives: Abortion providers are commonly depicted as dangerous and callous which generates distress for providers, undue fear among patients, and restrictive legislation. We hypothesized that disrupting these stereotypes could reduce medical marginalization for providers and decrease abortion stigma. We created a short documentary film with the aim of disrupting negative stereotypes, and we developed and ...Read more >

There is an urgent need for effective HIV prevention tools for African American (AA) women, a population disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS health disparities. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2012 for use by HIV-negative persons, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a promising biomedical prevention strategy that has the potential to reduce HIV incidence among ...Read more >

Over the past decade, our team has worked with families to develop interventions to improve how parents communicate with adolescents about sexual health issues. In recent years, parents have increasingly asked that content be delivered online. Parents report that as families’ schedules have become busier, it is difficult to attend in-person programs. Parents want a ...Read more >