Greater understanding of side effects is an important mechanism for achieving good client experience and alignment of contraceptive function for reproductive goals. While contraceptive side effects are important determining factors in contraceptive satisfaction and continuation, the notion of side effects as unidimensional or binary (present/absent) is too crude to explain current data and user reality. ...Read more >

Current paradigms for contraceptive care and counseling are limited, or even harmful, in how they serve people experiencing side effects. Despite evidence that people seek to balance method effectiveness with few side effects, many describe feeling dismissed or discouraged when seeking follow-up care. Further, health care systems have yet to put concerted effort into building ...Read more >

Self-managed medication abortion (SMMA) is rapidly becoming a major – and in some cases the only – option for those seeking abortion in states like Mississippi with complete abortion bans; requests for SMMA in Mississippi have tripled since Roe v Wade was overturned. Qualitative research has identified facilitators and barriers to SMMA, but no quantitative ...Read more >

The US Supreme Court decision for Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has restricted abortion for people seeking to terminate pregnancy. People who experience structural oppression due to racism, classism, sexism, and other factors are most impacted by this decision and face burdensome pathways to acquiring an abortion. Access to abortion was severely restricted by ...Read more >

The Preference Evaluation Research (PrefER) Group at the Duke Clinical Research Institute has partnered with providers from the Duke Family Planning Clinic, an academic collaborator, and community-based advocates to design a web-based survey to generate evidence on features associated with abortion-care options. The study will be designed to quantify the relative importance of various abortion-care ...Read more >

Dr. Jayme Trevino is a current first-year Complex Family Planning Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She is originally from San Antonio, TX, where she completed her Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health degrees. Dr. Trevino is interested in researching how public policy affects reproductive health equity, especially in regions with ...Read more >

Medication abortion (MAB) is common, safe, effective, and well tolerated. However, the current socio-legal climate has put significant barriers between pregnant people people and abortion. As such, clinicians and advocates are developing alternative models of medication delivery. One such option is to provide advanced provision (AP) prescription of MAB for patient use in case of ...Read more >

Abby Schultz, MD received her BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Fine Arts at Cornell College. After graduating, she taught middle school in Memphis, Tennessee. Teaching in a county with high teenage pregnancy rates and limited sexual health education inspired her to pursue a career in medicine and reproductive justice. She received her MD ...Read more >

Dr. Paige Kendall is a first-year Complex Family Planning fellow at the University of Colorado. She attended medical school at the University of California, Davis and then completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University. Her educational experiences have afforded her a diversity of research experiences, culminating in a focus in family planning. ...Read more >

Complex Family Planning subspecialists have a critical role to improve the quality, safety, and value of health care experiences and facilitate community and health system uptake of evidence, empathy, and equity-based interventions into practice and policy across the sexual, reproductive, and perinatal life course of Black women, mothers, and people. This qualitative study will amplify ...Read more >