Social media is flooding users with bad information about birth control. PCRHP's Christine Dehlendorf and April explain why providers need to fight back by rebuilding trust in reproductive health care.
April Bell, Director of Girlxlab, and Assistant Professor at the UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine, was highlighted on KCBS's coverage of the anniversary of the Dobbs’ decision. Dr. Bell discusses the importance of her work on an ongoing digital storytelling project featuring Black…
Dr. Christine Dehlendorf talks with KALW's Eliza Peppel about confronting declining national abortion education by embedding trainings into primary care curriculum.
Beckie Kriz, MS, RN, program director for the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program (PCRHP) talks about her role at PCRHP, her learnings from the UCSF Leadership Academy, and what she enjoys most about working at the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine.
“There needs to be repair and restoration of trust between HCPs and communities and patients about people’s experience of birth control methods.” - Dr. Christine Dehlendorf of the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program talked to Vox.com about the importance of honoring people’s concerns about…
As of August 2023—a little more than a year after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion—17 states had banned or severely restricted abortion. These bans have raised concerns about how to give clinicians comprehensive reproductive health training.
For the first time, people in the United States will be able to buy birth control pills off the shelf. On July 13, the FDA approved the first over-the-counter contraceptive. Details of when and where the pill will be available and how much it will cost have not yet been released.
PCRHP's Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling Measure was the key focus of a report by the Center for American Progress series highlighting best practices to improve and expand access to contraception at the state level through quality measures.
