Molly Battistelli

Molly Battistelli directs several projects that aim to advance reproductive justice and access to health care for all women. Her work emphasizes a public health/health services approach to understanding the complex forces that affect the policy landscape for reproductive health care in the United States. Ms. Battistelli’s current focus is on expanding access to reproductive health care in primary care settings, understanding and promoting the role of nurses in abortion care, and advancing an evidence-based approach to health policy and service delivery. She is presently examining the impact of California’s enactment of AB154 (which legalized the provision of aspiration abortion by advanced practice nurses and physician assistants in California) on primary care and reproductive health care clinics and models of care delivery. Ms. Battistelli has over a decade of experience in applied public health research, having previously worked at the University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for Health Policy, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and as a consultant to the RAND Corporation. She received her BA from Connecticut College and her MPH from UCLA.

Citations

Battistelli M, Magnusson S, Biggs MA, Freedman LR. Expanding the Abortion Provider Workforce: A Qualitative Study of Organizations Implementing a New California Policy. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. February 2018; 50(1):33-39.
Freedman LR, Hebert LE, Battistelli M, Stulberg DB. Religious hospital policies on reproductive care: What do patients want to know?. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. February 2018; 218(2):251.e1-251.e9.
Berglas NF, Battistelli M, Nicholson WK, Sabota M, Urman RD, Roberts SCM. The effect of facility characteristics on patient safety, patient experience, and service availability for procedures in non-hospital-affiliated outpatient settings: A systematic review. PLOS One. January 2018; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190975.
Taylor D, Battistelli M, Anderson P, Arida J. Safety and acceptability of NPs, CNMs, and PAs as abortion providers. November 2017.
Taylor D, Battistelli M, Anderson P, Arida J. What NPs/CNMs/PAs need to know/do to provide abortion care in California. August 2017.
Taylor D, Battistelli M, Anderson P, Arida J. HWPP study findings and methods. August 2017.
Taylor D, Battistelli M, Anderson P, Arida J. Nurses’ role in unintended pregnancy prevention: Nurses as abortion care providers. August 2017.
Taylor D, Upadhyay UD, Fjerstad M, Battistelli M, Weitz TA, Paul M. Standardizing the classification of abortion incidents: the Procedural Abortion Incident Reporting and Surveillance (PAIRS) Framework. Contraception. July 2017; 96(1):1-13.
Freedman LR, Battistelli M, Gerdts C, McLemore MR. Radical or routine? Nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, and physician assistants as abortion providers. Reproductive Health Matters. May 2015; 23 (45):90-92.
Weitz TA, Taylor D, Upadhyay UD, Desai S, Battistelli M. Research informs abortion care policy change in California. American Journal of Public Health. October 2014; 104(10):e3-4.
Weitz TA, Taylor D, Desai S, Upadhyay UD, Battistelli M, Waldman J, Drey EA. Safety of Aspiration Abortion Performed by Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives and Physician Assistants under a California Legal Waiver. American Journal of Public Health. March 2013; 103(3):454-61.
Auerbach DI, Pearson ML, Taylor D, Battistelli M, Sussell J, Hunter LE, Schnyer C, Schneider EC. Nurse Practitioners and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services. RAND. January 2012.
Dragoman MV, Steinauer JE, Cepin AG, Guiahi M, Krajewski CM, Taylor D, Battistelli M. Medical Education in Abortion. Medscape. November 2011.
Taylor D, Drey EA, Fischer RL, Gatter M, Sheehan K, Waldman J, Karasek D, Levi A, Battistelli M, Kriz R, Weitz TA. Standardizing early aspiration abortion complication definitions and tracking: Testing an evidence-based framework. September 2011.
Levi A, Taylor D, Waldman J, Goodman S, Battistelli M, Karasek D, Weitz TA. Training to competence and beyond: Evaluation of a standardized training program for establishing and maintaining competence in early aspiration abortion care. September 2011.
Battistelli M, Taylor D, Schultz E, Weitz TA. Dusting off an innovation state mechanism: California’s Health Workforce Pilot Project Program. June 2011.
Battistelli M, Nobel K, Nyborg S, Taylor D, Weitz TA. Certified Nurse-Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants as Abortion Providers: Preliminary findings from the California Health Workforce Pilot Project (HWPP) #171. June 2010.
Taylor D, Battistelli M, Nobel K, Levi A, Shultz E, Nyborg S, Weitz TA. Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs) as Abortion Providers: Preliminary findings from the California Health Workforce Pilot Project (HWPP) #171. September 2009.