Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health—ANSIRH—works to ensure that reproductive health care and policy are grounded in evidence. ANSIRH’s multi-disciplinary team includes clinicians, researchers and scholars in the fields of sociology, demography, anthropology, medicine, nursing, public health, and law. ANSIRH is a program of the
Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health.
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Kate Cockrill, MPH, and Diana Taylor, PhD, RN, NP, were honorees at the recent NAF conference, Kate for the Best Social Science Research Presentation and Diana with the new Clinicians for Choice Leadership Award.
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ANSIRH’s landmark study on provision of abortion by trained physician assistants, certified nurse midwives, and nurse practitioners has just been published in the American Journal of Public Health. Learn more...
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Dr. Diana Greene Foster was interviewed on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry show about the Turnaway Study, ANSIRH's ground-breaking study on what happens to women who seek abortions but are unable to obtain them...
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ANSIRH has launched the first UCSF crowdfunding campaign, to support the UCSF Global Turnaway Study, new research into the experiences of women around the world who are denied legal abortions. Read more....
In a new video, Dr. Katrina Kimport introduces her research on women’s experience with abortion. Her article “(Mis)Understanding Abortion Regret” will be published later this year by Symbolic Interaction, and is already available online...
The University of California, San Francisco, recognized ANSIRH Director Tracy Weitz with the 2012 Academic Senate Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the Associate rank....
We have updated our map of access to later abortion services to reflect the effects of legislation enacted by Republican-led state legislatures since 2010. A comparison with the 2010 map shows the dramatic decline in access over the past two years...
Key Programs
The Turnaway Study. A look at the consequences of abortion for women who have an unwanted pregnancy. Read more...
The Primary Care Initiative. Research into policy changes that would allow a broad range of clinicians to provide first-trimester aspiration abortion as a component of primary health care. Read more...
Patient Ultrasound Viewing Project. Investigating the clinical and psychological effects of various approaches to ultrasound viewing in the abortion care context. Read more...
Social and Emotional Aspects of Abortion. Research into women's experiences with abortion and abortion support services. Read more...
