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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

• King L, Strasser J, Luckenbill S, Schenk E, Tsevat D, Maslowsky J. Adolescent and Young Adult Perspectives on Contraception Post-Dobbs: "The Next Closest Step to Having Control Over My Own Body". Women’s Health Issues. May 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2025.04.001
• Strasser J, Schenk E, Luckenbill S, Tsevat D, King L, Luo Q, Maslowsky J. Tubal Sterilization and Vasectomy Increased Among US Young Adults After the Dobbs Supreme Court Decision In 2022. Health Affairs. January 2025. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2024.00824
• Strasser J, Schenk E, Luo Q, Chen C. Lower OBGYN Supply in Abortion Ban States, Despite Minimal State-Level Changes in the 2 Years Post-Dobbs. Health Affairs Scholar. November 27, 2024. doi:10.1093/haschl/qxae162.
• Strasser J, Ouedraogo R, Baird S, Coast E. Global Workforce Implications of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization. Lancet. June 22, 2024. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00984-X.
• Strasser J, Schenk E, Luo Q, Bodas M, Murray M, Chen C. Contraception Usage and Workforce Trends Through 2022. JAMA Network Open. April 15, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.6044
• Strasser J, Chen C, Rosenbaum S, Schenk E, Dewhurst E. Penalizing Abortion Providers Will Have Ripple Effects Across Pregnancy Care. Health Affairs Forefront. May 3, 2022. doi:10.1377/forefront.20220503.129912

Medicaid Contraception Workforce

• White K, Dickman S, Strasser J, Simons, H. The Risks of Excluding Qualified Family Planning Centers from Medicaid. JAMA. August 13, 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.12494
• Strasser J, Schenk E, Luo Q, Bodas M, Chen C. Training in Residency and Provision of Reproductive Health Service Provision Among Family Medicine Physicians. JAMA Network Open. August 23, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.30489
• Bodas M, Strasser J, Luo Q, Schenk E, Chen C. Association of Primary Care Physicians’ Individual- and Community-Level Characteristics with Contraceptive Service Provision to Medicaid Beneficiaries. JAMA Health Forum. March 17, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.0106​

Abortion Workforce

• Dobkin F, Strasser J, Pittman J, Salsberg E. Project 2025’s Labor and Reproductive Health Policies: Implications for the Health Workforce. Health Affairs Forefront. October 30, 2024. doi:10.1377/forefront.20241029.978531
• Strasser J, Ouedraogo R, Baird S, Coast E. Global Workforce Implications of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization. Lancet. June 22, 2024. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00984-X.
• Strasser J, Schenk E, Luo Q, Bodas M, Chen C. Training in Residency and Provision of Reproductive Health Service Provision Among Family Medicine Physicians. JAMA Network Open. August 23, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.30489​
• Strasser J, Schenk E, Dewhurst E, Chen C. Changes in the Clinical Workforce Providing Contraception and Abortion Care in the US, 2019-2021. JAMA Network Open. November 1, 2022. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.39657
• ​​Strasser J, Chen C, Rosenbaum S, Schenk E, Dewhurst E. Penalizing Abortion Providers Will Have Ripple Effects Across Pregnancy Care. Health Affairs Forefront. May 3, 2022. doi:10.1377/forefront.20220503.129912
• ​Strasser J, Schenk E, Das K, et al. Workforce Providing Abortion Care and Management of Pregnancy Loss in the US. JAMA Internal Medicine. March 21, 2022. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.0223

Pharmacist Prescribing of Contraception

• Rak S, Strasser J, Schenk E, Steenland M. Contraceptives at the Counter: Pharmacists Prescribed a Fraction of Overall Contraceptives, 2022. Health Affairs. November 2025. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00224.
• Strasser J, Schenk E. Prescribing Authority for Pharmacists Is Integral to Protecting Reproductive Health and Rights. Health Affairs Forefront. March 21, 2023. doi:10.1377/forefront.20230317.737754
• Schenk E, Chen C, Luo Q, Bodas M, Strasser J. Pharmacist Prescribing Contraception Could Increase Access: Evidence from 13 States (2019-2021). Washington, DC: Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, George Washington University, February 2023.
• ​​Strasser J, Schenk E, Chen C. Pharmacist Prescribing of Hormonal Contraception. Washington, DC: Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, George Washington University, December 2021.​

Contraceptive Usage Trends

• Strasser J, Schenk E, Luo Q, Bodas M, Murray M, Chen C. Contraception Usage and Workforce Trends Through 2022. JAMA Network Open. April 15, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.6044
• Strasser J, Schenk E, Dewhurst E, Chen C. Changes in the Clinical Workforce Providing Contraception and Abortion Care in the US, 2019-2021. JAMA Network Open. November 1, 2022. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.39657

Specialty & Geographic Distribution

• Chen C, Strasser J, Banawa R, et al. Who is Providing Contraception Care in the United States? An Observational Study of the Contraception Workforce. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. August 18, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2021.08.015​

Featured Presentations

Scaling Contraceptive Access in Primary Care

Pharmacists' Role in Contraceptive Care

Presentations by Year

2025

• Congressional Briefing. 
  
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Identifying Geographic Gaps in the Clinical Workforce Providing Contraception to Medicaid Beneficiaries, 2019 & 2020. (Poster presentation).
  
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Lower Obstetrician and Gynecologist (OBGYN) Supply in Abortion-Ban States, Despite Minimal State-Level Changes in the 2 Years Post-Dobbs. (Podium presentation).
  
• National Abortion Federation Annual Meeting. Compensation & Staffing in the Abortion Care Ecosystem: Key Findings from a Mixed Methods Research Project. (Podium presentation).
  
• Academy Health. What’s Changed Since Dobbs? Exploring the Evidence and Opportunities for Action. (Webinar).

2024

• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Implications of Dobbs v Jackson on the Reproductive Health Workforce. (Panel presentation).
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Methodological Issues in Conducting Research in a Post-Roe World. (Panel presentation).
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Pharmacist Prescribing of Contraception: Evidence on Translating Policy into Practice from 18 States. (Poster presentation). 
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Estimating the Workforce Prescribing Contraception in the US: Evidence from a National Claims Dataset. (Poster presentation). 
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Longitudinal Analysis of Primary Care Physicians’ Contraception Provision to Medicaid Beneficiaries, 2016-19. (Poster presentation).
• George Washington University Milken School of Public Health Research Days. Estimating the Workforce Prescribing Contraception in the US: Evidence from a National Claims Dataset. (Poster presentation).

2023

• APHA Annual Meeting. Pharmacist prescribing of contraception: Evidence on translating policy into practice from 13 states. (Podium presentation).
  
• APHA Annual Meeting. Access to contraception is determined by the reproductive health workforce: Evidence from a national claims data set. (Podium presentation).
  
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Pharmacist Prescribing of Contraception Could Increase Access: Evidence from 13 States. (Poster presentation).
  
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Associations Between Physician- and Community-Level Factors and Contraception Provision. (Poster presentation).
  

2022

• APHA Annual Meeting. Changes in the provider workforce for IUDs, implants, and contraceptive shots during the initial months of the Covid-19 Pandemic. (Roundtable presentation).
  
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Workforce Providing Vasectomy Care in the United States, 2019. (Poster presentation).
  
• Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. How Did Pharmacist Contraception Prescribing Authority Translate into Practice During COVID-19? (Poster presentation).  
  
• AAMC Health Workforce Research Conference (Virtual). Describing the Family Medicine and OBGYN Workforce for IUDs and Contraceptive Implants. (Panel presentation).  

2021

•  Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. The Provider Workforce Prescribing Contraception in the US. (Poster presentation).
  
• APHA Annual Meeting. The provider workforce for in-person contraception in the US. (Roundtable presentation).
  
• AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion & Health Workforce Research Joint Conference. The Provider Workforce for Contraception Services in the US. (Plenary session).