Research project

Evidence-Informed Facility Standards explores what evidence-informed facility standards would look like in the context of abortion. Specifically, researchers: describe the existing evidence-base related to general standards for freestanding outpatient facilities that perform procedures; conduct new research to begin building an evidence-base related to facility standards in the context of abortion; and describe how facility standards are established in other contexts, where abortion-related political influences are not present.

Health Department Engagement on Abortion aims to engage public health professionals working inside and outside of health departments in defining the abortion-related public health services health departments should provide. Through this project, researchers have proposed how health departments should engage with abortion care, identifies the type of work around abortion currently being undertaken by health departments, and engages with public health professionals to understand their processes, challenges, and opportunities in facilitating abortion-access and assuring the quality of abortion care.