In October 2023, Jacobs Institute Director Dr. Julia Strasser gave two presentations at the UCLA School of Public Health. On October 25, she presented research at the California Center for Population Research for a seminar titled "Who is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce," and on October 26, she presented at a seminar with the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health titled "Access to Contraception Post-Dobbs: Current Research and Policies." The abstract for the CCPR presentation is below:
The clinical workforce providing contraception and abortion care in the US is a critical determinant of access to care. However, a series of data limitations has made it difficult to study this workforce at the national level. Using national-level medical and prescription claims datasets, we have constructed a first-of-its-kind database and analyzed various aspects of this workforce, including its composition by specialty, distribution by state and county, and shifts over time. This presentation will discuss: 1. Differences in provision of contraceptive services by physician specialty and advanced practice clinician type 2. Changes to the contraception and abortion care workforce during Covid-19, and 3. Association between residency training for family medicine physicians and provision of reproductive health services to Medicaid beneficiaries.The clinical workforce providing contraception and abortion care in the US is a critical determinant of access to care. However, a series of data limitations has made it difficult to study this workforce at the national level. Using national-level medical and prescription claims datasets, we have constructed a first-of-its-kind database and analyzed various aspects of this workforce, including its composition by specialty, distribution by state and county, and shifts over time. This presentation will discuss: 1. Differences in provision of contraceptive services by physician specialty and advanced practice clinician type 2. Changes to the contraception and abortion care workforce during Covid-19, and 3. Association between residency training for family medicine physicians and provision of reproductive health services to Medicaid beneficiaries.