Reproductive Health Workforce May Look Different in 10 Years

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.”
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