“The abortion and contraceptive workforce has been consistently losing practitioners for a while, which leaves people with less access to these important services.” said Julia Strasser, director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health and Assistant Research Professor at Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. Read GW school of public health press release highlighting the new study "Changes in the Clinical Workforce Providing Contraception and Abortion Care in the US, 2019-2021"

Julia Strasser, lead researcher and director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at GW’s Milken Institute School of Public Health was featured in this piece from Healthcare dive for her research Changes in the Clinical Workforce Providing Contraception and Abortion Care in the US, 2019-2021. “The abortion and contraceptive workforce has been consistently losing practitioners for a while, which leaves people with less access to these important services,” Julia Strasser. 
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Research Scientist at Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, Randl Dent, was featured with others in this podcast from MPRnews discussing the lack of providers of color and the barriers facing them when entering the behavioral health workforce. Listen here.