Reproductive autonomy is a human right.
All people should experience respect and trust when receiving care.
We create tools that center people’s unique values and preferences for care.

We advance reproductive autonomy and well-being by conducting research and designing programs that center people’s experiences and preferences for sexual and reproductive health and health care. 

 

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Recent Publications

 

More publications coming soon!


Matern Child Health J., Sep 2024

A Scoping Review of Patient-Centered Perinatal Contraceptive Counseling

 

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Contraception, Jul 2024

Comparison of a person-centered pregnancy prevention question & 1 Key Question...

 

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JAMA Netw Open, 2024 Mar

A Decision Aid to Support Tubal Sterilization Decision-Making Among Pregnant...

 

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Recent News 


 

"Pushing back against the flood of harmful content requires establishing trusted sources of information and counteracting widespread misinformation and disinformation with supportive, positive, resources that are free of judgment." 

- Mai Fleming, Christine Dehlendorf & April J. Bell 

Scientific American, June 2024

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"This is when the culture of medicine that centers providers’ perspectives over those of patients has its absolute worst impact...We are explicitly able to take away people's autonomy by refusing to remove contraceptive methods." 

- Christine Dehlendorf 

TIME, May 2024

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"There needs to be repair and restoration of trust between health care providers and communities and patients about people’s experience of birth control methods if we are going to be able to give people information.”

- Christine Dehlendorf

Vox, May 2024

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