Julia Strasser, director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health and Assistant Research Professor at Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, and Ellen Schenk, research Associate in the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity were featured in this article from Relias Media.
“We found the number of physicians providing contraceptive services decreased substantially from 2019 to 2020,” Strasser says. “There was a dramatic decrease in the number of physicians providing contraceptive services. From 2020 to 2021, we saw a little increase, but it never regained that 2019 pre-COVID number, so we’re seeing this loss of physicians in the workplace.” Read full article here.
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“As we have already seen — even with a few months of the Dobbs decision — it does not just affect abortion care, it affects so much of healthcare,” says Julia Strasser, DrPH, MPH, director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health and Assistant Research Professor at Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity.
“We need to think about the health workforce beyond OB/GYN and how we can train and make sure family medicine and pediatrics and the entire primary care provider workforce is prepared to provide these services and how it could help with deserts of OB/GYNs.” says Ellen Schenk, MPP, a research associate at the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity in the department of health policy and management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health. Read the full piece here. |
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