What Will Happen to the Reproductive Healthcare Workforce?

“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.
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