contraception

Deirdre Quinn, PhD, MSc is one of VHA Shark Tank's finalists! Her promising practice, Contraception on Demand (COD) offers VA facilities the opportunity to expand contraceptive access for Veterans, improve Veteran experiences with reproductive healthcare at VA, and expand VA clinical pharmacists' scope of practice and job satisfaction. The practice is easy to adopt and implement and is achievable at very low cost to the individual facility and an estimated cost savings for the health system at large.

Learn more here: https://marketplace.va.gov/innovations/contraception-on-demand

Deirdre Quinn, PhD, MSc is one of VHA Shark Tank's finalists! Her promising practice, Contraception on Demand, employs two evidence-based strategies, pharmacist-led contraceptive prescribing and 12-month dispensing, to increase contraceptive access for Veterans, improve Veterans’ experiences with VA reproductive healthcare, and meaningfully expand VA clinical pharmacists’ scope of practice.

Director Dr. Sonya Borrero and Associate Director Dr. Marian Jarlenski found significant barriers in obtaining timely oral emergency contraception in southwestern Pennsylvania in this recent study.

Megan Kavanaugh's, PhD, most recent study looked at changes in use and receipt of emergency contraceptive pills among women in the US during a period of key emergency contraceptive policy changes, from 2008 to 2015.

Dr. Sonya Borrero worked with a team of experts to study the relationships between sexuality, race/ethnicity, and contraception use which showed that access to person centered care is lacking for multiple oppressed groups.