Telemedicine provides a unique opportunity to improve abortion care in Rwanda by allowing for service provision at primary care level. Efficacy of medication abortion is well established in healthcare,yet research in Rwanda is still needed to determine the effectiveness and safety of management of first trimester medication abortion cases at health centers. While current services are only available in district hospitals, services at health centers would decrease referrals for first trimester medication abortion.
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THE INSIDE SCOOP: SOCIETY FOR FAMILY PLANNING (SFP) ANNUAL MEETING
November 13, 2023
October 16, 2023
When: Thursday, November 2, 2023, 1 pm-2pm
Where: BWW Bldg, Room 5400
Click here to join via Zoom, meeting ID 999 7011 9745, passcode 979227
Topic: Mobilizing Climate, Gender, and Health Research for Action
Moderator: Professor Ndola Prata, MD, MSc, the chair of the Bixby Center
October 12, 2023
March 28, 2023
Dear Bixby Center Affiliates and Friends:
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has made clear the rapidly narrowing opportunity to enable climate resilient development. To create a different future, we must work differently, integrating across sectors, seeking synergy between climate and development actions, and highlighting diverse knowledge and innovation—especially from women and girls.
Women and girls may be the most affected by climate change—but they are also key to climate resilience and a thriving future.
March 26, 2023
Professor Ndola Prata will be teaching this new course in the fall 2023 semester. This 2-unit graduate course is open to all students of all disciplines. With special permission, undergraduate students are welcome to enroll as well!
November 29, 2022
The poster highlights our work using telemedicine to increase access to 1st trimester abortion in Rwanda.
Please click here for the poster.
October 27, 2022
Bixby Center's summer internship recipients 2022
Renee Clarke's research presentation on "Perceptions of empowerment of birthing people in the San Francisco Bay Area: survey methods"
October 26, 2022
Dr. Julia Walsh's opinion has been published in the Mercury News. She explains why she supports abortion choice.
Dr. Walsh is the former Chair of Bixby Center. She was also a health professor in the School of Public Health of UC Berkeley. Currently she is a senior research scientist at the School of Public Health.
October 19, 2022
Please join us via Zoom! https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95111812183
Bixby Center will present 2 Graduate Students, the recipients of Bixby Summer Internships 2022, to share their studies and research on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 from 3 pm to 4:30 pm.
August 16, 2022
Click the flyer below or here to watch Bhavya Joshi's webinar via YouTube
May 22, 2022
May 17, 2022
UCGHI Conference for Social Justice and Global Health was held at UC Santa Cruz.
To watch the video of the event, click here and skip the ads.
March 15, 2022
Telemedicine provides a unique opportunity to increase access to abortion care in Rwanda by task-shifting the provision of medication abortion while still complying with law that states only medical doctors can authorize abortion services. In this project, nurses/midwives in public health centers in Musanze District are providing first trimester medication abortion services by using telemedicine to connect with district hospital doctors for authorization.
January 30, 2022
Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability funds graduate student summer internships and dissertation research in the areas of family planning, population and reproductive health. The principal focus of the program is on family planning issues in developing countries where population growth rates remain high and reproductive health services are poor or inaccessible. (Internships that focus only on HIV/AIDS do not meet the criteria.)