Welcome to the September 2017 ANSIRH Update. Here is a list of our major accomplishments, and recognition for those accomplishments, over the past quarter.
2 Years with Dan Grossman, ANSIRH Director
Please join us in congratulating Dan Grossman who, as of this month, has been our director for two years. Thank you Dan for your excellent leadership!
3 New Awards
Diana Greene Foster was named the recipient of the 2017 Robert A. Hatcher Family Planning Mentor award from the Society of Family Planning.
Monica McLemore received the 2017 Margretta Madden Styles Award from STTI Alpha Eta chapter in UCSF’s School of Nursing.
Lauren Ralph was named the recipient of Contraception’s 2016-2017 Daniel R. Mishell, Jr, MD Outstanding Article Award by Contraception for her publication, “Measuring decisional certainty among women seeking abortion.”
10 New Publications
Since June, ANSIRH has published 10 new peer-reviewed publications. To view a list of these and other ANSIRH publications, visit: https://www.ansirh.org/publications/journals. Use the “Request a PDF” feature to receive articles that might be helpful for your research.
1 New ANSIRH-ite
Join us in welcoming Goleen Samari, PhD, MPH, MA, to ANSIRH’s team. Goleen came to us from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a NICHD Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Population Research Center. At ANSIRH, Goleen will primarily work with Corinne Rocca on several analyses and scientific publications on unintended pregnancy and social inequities. Studies include a contraceptive attitude measure development study and the ADAPT study.
70 Media Articles
During the past quarter, ANSIRH's research was featured in over 70 media articles. Visit our “ANSIRH in the media” page to view a list of selected articles.
1 New Video
Antonia Biggs provided expert testimony before the Chilean Constitutional Tribunal, citing data from the Turnaway Study, to support loosening the abortion ban in Chile. Watch Antonia’s testimony in this clip on our videos page (in Spanish).
2 Events
Abortion Researcher Incubator
From June 6th through 8th, ANSIRH held its first ever Abortion Researcher Incubator, a nearly week-long training of 13 scholars from around the country who are interested in studying or expanding their study of abortion. The training was organized by ANSIRH’s Katrina Kimport, Carole Joffe, Ushma Upadhyay and Nancy Berglas.
Medication Abortion Seminar
On June 8th, as part of ANSIRH’s 15th anniversary celebration, we hosted a seminar on medication abortion.
The event began with Carole Joffe presenting a historical overview of medication abortion and ANSIRH’s commitment to research on the method. Ushma Upadhyay discussed current state-level restrictions and Monica McLemore presented options for expanding provision of medication abortion to nurses and advanced practice clinicians. Corinne Rocca talked about her study of medication abortion provision in Nepal and Diane Tober, from the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging, presented on telemedicine and her work around California’s SB 320, a bill that would allow provision of medication abortion on college campuses.
Dan Grossman closed the event by discussing future directions of medication abortion, including the potential for making medication abortion available over the counter.
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