Welcome to UW CORE
The Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE) is an initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. CORE supports and translates rigorous, policy-relevant research on reproductive health, equity, and autonomy in Wisconsin and beyond.
Updates from CORE
Exploring libraries’ role in providing sexual and reproductive health information
New work by UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity researcher Barbara Alvarez illuminates the complicated nature and often untapped potential of providing public library services for sexual and reproductive health information. Alvarez, a doctoral student at …
CORE is hiring a Research Scientist!
We are hiring a research scientist to provide high-level scientific support for CORE’s research projects. The research scientist will work closely with the CORE Director on the design, leadership, and management of research projects, methods, …
Welcome Meghan Lepisto, Communications Manager
CORE is delighted to introduce a new member to our team–Meghan Lepisto, CORE Communications Manager. Meghan will lead and manage communications for CORE research projects and operations. Her role will include sharing CORE research findings …
Impacts of recent US federal policy on contraceptive access
Understanding the policy context of contraceptive care is more important than ever. CORE researcher Laura Swan recently published a systematic review of existing research on the impact of recent US federal policy on contraceptive access.
Abortion seekers express a variety of needs, study finds, and social workers could help meet those needs
The overturn of Roe makes it more important than ever to document the needs of abortion seekers and to help meet those needs through a variety of human service sectors—including the social work field.
CORE brief explains recent changes in medication abortion access
Medication abortion, often called the abortion pill, is a safe and effective way to end a pregnancy. CORE has prepared a new brief summarizing recent changes in federal policy that impact access to medication abortion. …
Medicaid sterilization consent practices increase barriers to effective contraception
In a new commentary in the journal Health Affairs, UW obstetrician-gynecologists Margaret Harrison and Abigail Cutler consider ways that current Medicaid patient consent requirements can inadvertently work to make tubal ligation less accessible for those …
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CORE in the Media: The Latest
- MSNBC: Prof. Tiffany Green: Residents in Wisconsin were living in post-Roe world before Dobbs decision
- Wisconsin Examiner: How are Wisconsin women doing under the 1849 ban?
- Milwaukee Magazine: The state of abortion in Wisconsin
- Cap Times: The Dobbs decision could decrease abortions for Wisconsinites by 20%
- Laura Jacques on NPR: Challenges to abortion training post-Roe
- Higgins, Jacques & Valley op-ed: Ending access to legal abortion has potentially deadly health consequences for Wisconsin
- Jenny Higgins in The New York Times: The Wisconsin abortion ban
- Tiffany Green on PBS: Abortion access and maternal health disparities
- Wisconsin Examiner: Abortion care on wheels, Just the Pill pioneers a novel approach to protecting reproductive health care access
- WPR: Is it legal to access abortion pills through the mail in Wisconsin?
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