Join us this Friday for our seminar series featuring Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi, who will explore the intersection of reproductive rights and rheumatology.
CONVERGE Seminar: Reproductive Rights and Rheumatology.
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Exploring the Effects of Reproductive Health Policy on the Health of People with Rheumatic Diseases
Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi will speak on February 23rd from 12-1 at the Senior Vice Chancellor's Research Seminar! Join for her lecture on Exploring the Effects of Reproductive Health Policy on the Health of People with Rheumatic Diseases.
Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QebqJ5IyTY-uK1lsTBWZKA#/registration
How to Provide Sexual and Reproductive Health Care to Patients: Focus Groups with Rheumatologists and Rheumatology Advanced Practice Providers
Join Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi and her colleagues on December 5th for NIH's Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival and their presentation on How to Provide Sexual and Reproductive Health Care to Patients: Focus Groups with Rheumatologists and Rheumatology Advanced Practice Providers.
Learn more and register here: https://www.scgcorp.com/OBSSRFestival2023/Agenda
Letter to the Editor: The impact of U.S. abortion policy on rheumatology clinical practice: a cross-sectional survey of rheumatologists
Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi, Greer Donley, and Catherine Wright collaborated on a letter to the editor of Arthritis & Rheumatology about their recent cross-sectional survey of rheumatologists which describes the impacts of U.S. abortion policy on rheumatology clinical practice.
View the full letter to the editor here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37706661/
Focus Groups with Rheumatologists on Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Care to Patients
In a series of focus groups, providers identified many potential solutions and facilitators to enhancing sexual and reproductive care in rheumatology that might serve as a foundation for intervention development.
Read more here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36319006/
Focus groups with rheumatologists and rheumatology advanced practice providers on sexual and reproductive health care
Dr. Traci Kazmerski, Olivia Stransky, Dr. Sonya Borrero, Dr. Megan Hamm, and Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi conducted focus groups with rheumatologists and rheumatology advanced practice providers to elicit their solutions to overcoming barriers to sexual and reproductive health care.
Overturning Roe v. Wade: Toppling the Practice of Rheumatology
Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi and her team discuss the impacts of overturning Roe v. Wade on patients with rheumatic diseases, including:
- Medication access
- Prescribing practices
- Proposed contraceptive limitations
- Medical sexism
- Pregnancy complications
Read more: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/art.42336
Men expressed concerns related to family planning, parenting, and sexual and reproductive health
Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi and Olivia Stansky explored family planning, parenting, and sexual and reproductive health care needs and experiences of men with rheumatic diseases.
Read more: https://www.jrheum.org/content/49/3/251