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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.

THE INSIDE SCOOP: SOCIETY FOR FAMILY PLANNING (SFP) ANNUAL MEETING

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

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.

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!

The poster highlights our work using telemedicine to increase access to 1st trimester abortion in Rwanda.

Please click here for the poster.

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"

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.  

Click the flyer below or here to watch Bhavya Joshi's webinar via YouTube

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.

To read UCGHI's summary of the event, click here.

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.

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.)