Dr. Traci Kazmerski, Olivia Stransky, Dr. Sonya Borrero, Dr. Megan Hamm, and Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi conducted focus groups with rheumatologists and rheumatology advanced practice providers to elicit their solutions to overcoming barriers to sexual and reproductive health care.
Drs. Sonya Borrero, Mehret Birru Talabi, and Christine Dehlendorf discuss the abortion service landscape in their recent JAMA article, confronting how the recent Dobbs decision has caused the medical community to reckon with the systematic exclusion, marginalization, and stigma of abortion care.
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Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi and her team discuss the impacts of overturning Roe v. Wade on patients with rheumatic diseases, including:
Read more: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/art.42336
Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi and Olivia Stansky explored family planning, parenting, and sexual and reproductive health care needs and experiences of men with rheumatic diseases.
Read more: https://www.jrheum.org/content/49/3/251
Drs. Laura Kirkpatrick, Sonya Borrero, Elizabeth Miller, Mehret Birru Talabi, and Traci Kazmerski interviewed women with epilepsy (WWE) about their perspectives, preferences, and experiences regarding sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care.
Read more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35247834/
Faculty members Sonya Borrero, MD, MS, Suji Uhm, MD, MPH, Marian Jarlenski, PhD, Mehret Birru Talabi, MD, PhD, and Greer Donley, JD will present at Grand Rounds with Pitt School of Medicine and Pitt Public Health on September 6th around Ensuring Patient-Centered Care in a Post-Roe World.
Congratulations to Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi on her new NICHD R21: "Development of a novel, patient-centered measure of reproductive autonomy in the healthcare context"!
Our FemTech Collaborative proposed a set of guiding principles for building technology that proactively identifies and addresses critical gaps in health care for people socially and economically marginalized people who are capable of pregnancy.
You can read this publication here: https://www.jmir.org/2022/4/e36338
On September 15, 2021, CWHRI faculty collaborated on a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about the current state of women's and gender health. Focusing on developing and validating meaningful measures, building data infrastructure, and developing and testing innovative interventions, these comments create a foundation for how the NIH can move forward to advance gender and racial equity in the Office of Research on Women's Health.
Congratulations to Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi for receiving a perfect score on her 1st R21 submission to develop a measure for reproductive autonomy in health care settings, which speaks to the urgent need for this metric.
