Sexual and Reproductive Health Workforce Project

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the health care landscape is changing rapidly. To ensure that patients’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs continue to be met in the changing US system, ARHP has launched the Sexual and Reproductive Health Workforce Project.

ARHP has convened the leading academics, advocates, providers, and policymakers to determine strategies for educating and training the workforce to deliver sexual and reproductive health care. Critical goals of this project include:

Ensuring that health professionals entering primary care and public health are competent to provide high quality SRH care
Adapting primary care pre-licensure training to include well-prepared faculty members teaching SRH core competencies
Expanding SRH skills training and continuing education opportunities for providers
Changing health care systems, including primary care settings, to provide safe, timely, affordable, culturally appropriate evidenced-based SRH care
Improving the distribution of the primary care work force to reduce disparities in SRH care

In late January, ARHP brought together the leading experts in the field for the Sexual and Reproductive Health Workforce Project Summit. The results of this convening will be published in early Spring 2013. Summit participants included:

Joyce Cappiello, PhD, FNP (Steering Committee Co-Chair) Director of ROE Consortium, Provide Inc. University of New Hampshire Cambridge, MA	Melissa Nothnagle, MD, MSc (Steering Committee Co-Chair) Family Medicine Residency Director Associate Professor of Family Medicine Alpert Medical School of Brown University Pawtucket, RI
Helen K. Bellanca, MD, MPH Maternal Child Family Program Manager Health Share of Oregon Portland, OR	Clare Coleman President & CEO National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) Washington, DC
Catherine Dower, JD Associate Director, Center for the Health Professions University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, CA	Jessica González-Rojas Executive Director National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health New York, NY and Washington, DC
Megan Grimm Assistant Director of Administration University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA	Mark Hathaway, MD, MPH Family Planning Fellowship Co-Director Medstar Washington Hospital Center Title X Medical Director, Unity Health Care Washington, DC
Amy Levi, CNM, WHNP-BC, PhD Albers Endowed Professor of Midwifery University of New Mexico College of Nursing Albuquerque, NM	Susan B Moskosky, MS, RNC Deputy Director Office of Population Affairs, DHHS Rockville, MD
Beth Jordan Mynett, MD Medical Director Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) Washington, DC	Michael Policar, MD, MPH Clinical Professor of Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences University Of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine San Francisco, CA
Julie Rabinovitz President & CEO California Family Health Council Los Angeles, CA	David Reyes, MN, MPH, RN, APHN-BC Health Services Administrator Public Health – Seattle and King County Seattle, WA
Pablo Rodriguez, MD Clinical Associate Professor Alpert Medical School at Brown University Chairman Women and Infants Health Care Alliance Providence, RI	Irene Sandvold, DrPH, CNM, FACNM, FAAN Nurse Consultant Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, Division of Public Health and Interdisciplinary Education, Public Health Branch Rockville, Maryland
Joan Stanley, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP Senior Director of Education Policy American Association of Colleges of Nursing Washington, DC	Carolyn M. Sutton, MS, WHNP-BC, FAANP Faculty Associate Department of Ob/Gyn UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Dallas, TX
Diana Taylor, RNP, PhD, FAAN Research & Evaluation Director, Primary Care Initiative, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) Program Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health; University of California-San Francisco Oakland, CA	Robert M. Trachtenberg, MS Executive Director National AHEC Organization Oak Creek, WI
David Turok, MD, MPH Associate Professor Family Planning Fellowship, Director University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	Carolyn Westhoff, MD Professor, Population and Family Health, Epidemiology, and Ob/Gyn Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York, NY
Deborah Williamson, DHA, MSN, CNM Associate Dean, Office of Practice Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing Charleston, SC	Jacki Witt, JD, MSN, WHNP-BC, SANE-A Project Director Title X Clinical Training Center University of Missouri, Kansas City Kansas City, MO
Sandy Worthington, MSN, WHNP-BC, CNM Director of Medical Education Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. New York, NY	Phyllis Zimmer, MN, FNP, FAAN President Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation Seattle, WA
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Peter Belden Program Officer The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Menlo Park, CA	Bonnie Adams Kapp Executive Director New Morning Foundation Columbia, SC
Marilyn Keefe, MPH, MPP Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs Washington, DC	Alison MacArthur Policy Advisor Office of US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Washington, DC
Hallie Schneir Associate Director White House Office of Public Engagement Washington, DC

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