There is an opportunity in Wisconsin to expand access to gender-affirming care for low-income, transgender people in our state. Rachel Dyer, a CORE researcher and a PhD student in the UW-Madison Department of Counseling Psychology, …
CORE Review Finds Close Association Between Economic and Sexual Wellbeing
A new analysis led by CORE Director Jenny A. Higgins, Madison Lands, Mfonobong Ufot, and Sara McClelland reviewed 47 studies from over 22 countries, and found nearly universal associations between socioeconomic constraints and poorer sexual …
Sexual Health and Flourishing Negatively Impacted by Economic Constraints
New research by CORE investigators documents that poverty and other financial constraints undermine people’s ability to have positive sexual experiences. All major public health organizations in the United States underscore that sexual health involves both …
Study Finds Over Half of Physicians Who Are Willing to Refer for Abortion Care Don’t Know How to Do So
A new study by CORE researchers shows that physicians want to refer patients for abortion services, but many lack the knowledge on how to do so. Published in in Social Science and Medicine – Population …
CORE’s Survey of Doctors Highlights Widespread Support for Abortion Access
Our recent series of studies here at UW CORE, Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, document overwhelming support of abortion services among faculty physicians at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. More than three-quarters of …
New Brief: Wisconsin’s Proposed Changes to Reproductive Health Funding
NEW CORE BRIEF: What would happen if reproductive healthcare providers were unable to participate in the Wisconsin Medicaid program? Members of the Wisconsin state legislature recently passed new legislation that would prohibit healthcare organizations that …
Ending Abortion Access Will Have Significant Harmful Consequences for Individual and Families, CORE Researchers and Other Social Science Experts Tell Supreme Court
CORE Researchers and other social science experts provided information to the Supreme Court indicating their concerns about the consequences of ending abortion access.
New CORE study documents serious financial barriers to abortion care
CORE researchers published an innovative new paper that finds that cost is one of the largest obstacles to abortion care in the U.S. The new study was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research …
CORE Publishes New Brief on Texas’s Abortion Ban—and What It Means for Wisconsin
We invite you to read and share the latest CORE Brief, “The New Texas Abortion Ban and Its Implications for Wisconsin.” Why does Texas SB 8 matter to Wisconsin? A similar ban would essentially stop …
Schmuhl, Rice, Wautlet, and Higgins published in Contraception
The journal Contraception has published new research by UW-Madison’s Nicholas B. Schmuhl, PhD, Laurel W. Rice, MD, Cynthia K. Wautlet, MD, and Jenny A. Higgins, PhD. The article is part of a larger research project based at UW CORE, …