The Women's Reproductive Health, Research, and Policy Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago is grounded in the belief that every woman has a right to plan if, when and how to have a family regardless of race/ethnicity, socio-economic status or citizenship. Our mission is to conduct innovative, culturally-relevant research, to train highly skilled practitioners and to promote social policies that maintain a woman's bodily integrity. The Program advances this mission through its three components: a contraception research program, the fellowship in family planning and contraception, and the Center for Reproductive Health.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH

The research arm of the Comprehensive Family Planning Program, the Contraceptive Research Program, collaborates with reproductive health researchers within the Department of Ob/Gyn and epidemiologists and biostatisticians within the School of Public Health to design and conduct contraceptive research studies. Researchers within the Contraceptive Research Program participate in contraceptive clinical trials, study attitudes toward contraception and family planning in minority adolescents, parents and providers, and explore the impact of culture and race on adolescent contraceptive use. Current studies include:

Qualitative/Quantitative Studies

Adolescent Care Database

Clinical Studies

Acceptability of NuvaRing® to College Women

Laminaria Tents in Second Trimester Medical Abortion

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