Numerous scholars affiliated with the UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE), along with colleagues from other Wisconsin institutions and communities, will present at the 2025 Society of Family Planning Annual Meeting, held October 25–27 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This annual gathering brings together experts who produce and inform research on abortion and contraception to share new findings, consider emerging questions, learn from one another, and strengthen the ability to provide evidence-informed, person-centered care.
Registered attendees can view the full conference schedule.
Friday
- Jane Seymour, PhD, MPH, CORE research scientist
Participating in the pre-conference workshop: “Do no harm: Balancing risk and rigor to generate evidence in the post-Dobbs landscape”
Saturday
- Jenny Higgins PhD, MPH, CORE director and professor of obstetrics and gynecology
Presenting: “Brakes and accelerators to abortion access post-Dobbs: Where can we best intervene?”
Poster Presentations
- Laura Swan PhD, Reproductive Equity Action Lab (REAL) research scientist and CORE investigator
Centering Black voices: A qualitative exploration on the ideal abortion experience - Brooke Whitfield PhD, REAL postdoctoral research associate
Associations between young people’s contraceptive knowledge and preferred method use - Abigail Cutler MD, MPH, CORE investigator and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology
The impact of Dobbs on facilitating abortion care in a restricted state - Taehyun Kim, PhD, CORE postdoctoral scholar
Effects of Medicaid abortion coverage on mentally unhealthy days in Illinois - Dana Johnson, PhD, MPaff, Health Disparities Research Scholars postdoctoral fellow and CORE investigator
Perspectives on over the counter and advance provision of medication abortion - Jenny Higgins and Jane Seymour (non-presenting co-authors)
Identifying fraud in a study of abortion access: Approach and recommendations
Barriers and facilitators to abortion by policy context in the Midwest post-Dobbs
Sunday
- Klaira Lerma, REAL associate director
Panelist: “What is measured, matters: Advancing the measurement of reproductive health equity”
Co-host: Research Implementation Special Interest Group meeting - Dana Johnson
Panelist: “The problem(s) with counting abortions” - Diana Carvajal MD, MPH, CORE investigator and assistant professor of family medicine and community health
Presenting: “Provision of patient-centered contraceptive care for Baltimore Latina/e patients” - Kristin Lyerly MD, MPH, Wisconsin OB-GYN physician, and Jane Seymour
Panelists: “Navigating abortion in the Midwest: Research, clinician, and abortion fund insights”
Featured Book
- When Roe fell: How barriers, inequities, and systematic failures of justice in abortion became visible
Includes chapters by CORE researchers Barbara Alvarez, Jenny Higgins, Klaira Lerma, Jane Seymour, and Kelly Ward.