UC San Francisco
For The New Generation Health Center
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Amount$400,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2011
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The New Generation Health Center of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) provides teen-friendly reproductive health care for young people in southeastern San Francisco neighborhoods with high rates of teen pregnancy. Fifty percent of the patients are Latino; twenty-five percent are African American. A primary goal of the clinic is to increase access to reproductive health services in these communities in order to decrease health disparities in terms of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates. The Center’s association with the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences enables the clinic to draw upon the talent and resources of UCSF’s experts in reproductive health and provides a research site for various academic studies examining reproductive behavior. During the prior grant period, the health center significantly increased both the number of clients it serves each month as well as the percentage of those clients who choose highly effective birth control methods such as IUDs.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ucsf.edu
Address
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco c/o Office of Sponsored Research
490 Illinois Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0000, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for a study on contraception in community colleges in Texas and California
This grant will support the continuation of a research project that is assessing an intervention to improve access to contraceptive services for young women attending community college in Texas and California. The project will explore how access to contraceptive services and prevention of unintended pregnancy can improve young women’s confidence in achieving their educational and career aspirations and support them to complete their degree on time and successfully enter the paid labor force. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)
for support of the post-Roe Turnaway Study project
This grant will support the “end of Roe” study, a longitudinal, observational cohort study examining the consequences of restricting legal abortion following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The study will document the immediate consequences of this decision by determining who was turned away from abortion services after the law change and how their characteristics compare to people who were served just prior to the law change. It will follow a subset of people who are willing to participate in order to learn who was able to get an abortion and who gave birth, and the consequent impact of these pregnancy outcomes on their health, financial well-being, and families. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)
for support of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health program
This grant will support Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), a program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California at San Francisco, to conduct rigorous, multidisciplinary research on complex issues related to people’s sexual and reproductive lives. ANSIRH’s research is designed to be utilized to inform and advance evidence-based policy, practice, and public discourse to improve reproductive well-being. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)
