Quote iconAs a provider, I've seen patients experience abortion as something more than just bodily integrity. It's their lives, their families, their futures.
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Education
Dr. Jody Steinauer went from co-founding Medical Students for Choice at UCSF in 1992 to becoming a national leader in abortion education and advocacy. As Director of the Bixby Center and the Ryan Residency Training Program, she has transformed how abortion and family planning are taught,ensuring these essential services remain central to medical education. See how.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi greets fellow roundtable panelists at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, in San Francisco.
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra speaks with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health Director Daniel Grossman while visiting Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital to discuss reproductive issues and UCSF’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health research program on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024
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Actor Bria Cooper wears a condom shaped hat during a staging of The Turnaway Play, based on the abortion research of UCSF’s Diana Greene Foster, PhD, at the Brava Theater on Sunday, April 6, 2025, in San Francisco
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Full house crowd reacts to a staging of The Turnaway Play, based on the abortion research of UCSF’s Diana Greene Foster, PhD, at the Brava Theater on Sunday, April 6, 2025, in San Francisco
Advocacy
As physicians and scientists, we bring evidence to the front lines, translating research into action that shapes policy, protects rights, and improves lives. We amplify the voices of our patients and ensure their needs are heard.
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Research
Diana Greene Foster, PhD, a demographer and the director of research at UCSF’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health led the groundbreaking Turnaway Study documenting what happens to women who can’t get abortions. She was recently named a MacArthur Fellow, one of the most coveted honors in academia and science. Foster’s work along with our scientists, arms policymakers and advocates with the critical evidence needed in an era of rapidly shifting reproductive laws.
Our Programs
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The UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health integrates research, training, clinical care, and advocacy to advance reproductive autonomy, equitable and compassionate care, and reproductive and sexual health worldwide. We are a multidisciplinary group of over 200 people with physicians, nurses, advanced practice clinicians, social scientists, clinical researchers, and staff that span UCSF schools and departments.
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Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), based at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), is a leading research program that informs the most pressing debates on abortion and reproductive health. At ANSIRH, we envision a world in which all people have the resources, support, and freedom to achieve reproductive wellbeing.
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The Complex Family Planning Fellowship is accredited by the ACGME and is a two-year fellowship for Ob-Gyn residency graduates focused on subspecialist training in research, teaching, and clinical practice in complex abortion and contraception. In addition to all ob/gyn subspecialty fellowships, UCSF offers advocacy training.
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HIVE encompasses clinical care, training, and advocacy for HIV-informed sexual and reproductive health care at ZSFG. They promote a non-judgmental, trauma-sensitive, family-inclusive, and resiliency-based approach to reproductive and sexual healthcare for those living with HIV.
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Team Lily, a clinic at ZSFG was designed to make it easier for patients affected by mental illness, substance use disorder, homelessness, and intimate partner violence to access perinatal care. To build trust, Team Lily sends navigators and social workers to meet pregnant patients in shelters, encampments, and homes. They also prioritize meeting patients’ basic needs, including food and shelter.
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Beyond the Pill advances contraceptive agency and access. We conduct rigorous research and deliver evidence-based training and resources to transform contraceptive care in the US and globally. Our work centers youth and communities facing the greatest barriers to reproductive autonomy.
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The Fishbon Endowed Chair in Family Planning and Abortion at UCSF Mount Zion resides in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the School of Medicine. The program supports the research, teaching, and service activities of the Chair related to their work in family planning and abortion at UCSF Mount Zion. The current chair is Dr. Katherine Brown.
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Innovating Education in Reproductive Health offers free and open source evidence-based family planning curriculum. Innovating Education cultivates clinicians who offer high-quality, patient-centered, comprehensive reproductive healthcare by generating, curating, and disseminating novel curricula, learning tools, and research for educators.
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The Ryan Program works directly with ob-gyn residency programs to integrate training in abortion and contraception care (family planning) as a required rotation. All programs establish or expand abortion services in their teaching hospitals and may also create new partnerships with local clinics to train residents.
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The California Prevention Training Center (CAPTC) has been delivering comprehensive technical assistance and training to clinicians and healthcare professionals through a diverse range of online and in-person. We specialize in empowering healthcare organizations to enhance their service delivery through tailored capacity-building initiatives.
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San Francisco General’s abortion clinic provides both first- and second-trimester abortion care, including pill abortion (medication abortion). Highly trained counselors provide individual counseling before procedures and are present to offer emotional support during abortions.
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The UCSF Center for Pregnancy Options provides abortion care and family planning services in a private, comfortable and sensitive environment. We care for women seeking elective abortion, treatment for miscarriage or fetal death, and pregnancy termination due to health problems of the fetus or mother.
Our Experts in The News
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To Get Abortion Training, Some Medical Students Must Leave Their States — and Come to California
Around 30,000 students are being educated to become doctors in those states,” said Dr. Jody Steinauer, director of the Bixby Center as well as the Ryan Residency Training Program, which helps send OB-GYN residents out of anti-abortion states for training and which hosted the panel in San Francisco. “We are worried these doctors will finish their training without abortion care training.”
Partners & Collaborators
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Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare is a national leader in abortion training and curriculum innovation, with a mission to cultivate the next generation of diverse reproductive health champions.
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The Girlx Lab is a Black woman-led research group at the University of California San Francisco developing new ways to improve the health and well-being of Black adolescent girls of all gender identities.
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We advance reproductive autonomy and well-being by conducting research and designing programs that center people’s experiences and preferences for sexual and reproductive health and health care.
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Reproductive Health Hotline is a free, confidential hotline to support clinicians nationwide to provide reproductive and sexual healthcare. ReproHH connects frontline providers with experts from the UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine for real-time clinical guidance.