Documenting the Composition of Clinicians Providing Abortion Care Grant

The Society of Family Planning is offering a funding opportunity titled 'Documenting the Composition of Clinicians Providing Abortion Care.' This initiative aims to support research focused on the workforce that provides abortion care in the U.S. It seeks to gather empirical data on clinician composition and the volume of care delivered post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This evidence will inform training, policy, and service delivery, contributing to a stronger and more equitable abortion care system.

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This evidence is critical in light of the potential and observed disruptions to the abortion care workforce resulting from the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision. To address this gap, the Society of Family Planning is offering the Documenting the composition of clinicians providing abortion care funding opportunity. This funding opportunity seeks to support research projects that generate data on the composition of clinicians providing abortion care in the US and the volume of abortions provided, ensuring we have the needed information to track and strengthen the abortion care workforce.
Research Focus
We invite proposals positioned to generate quantitative data on:

• the composition of clinicians providing medication and procedural abortion care andthe volume of abortions by clinician type in the post-Dobbs period.

If feasible, based on the proposed methods, we are also interested in projects that generate data on the training background of physicians (eg, obstetrics and gynecology, family medicine). We recognize that the abortion care workforce includes a broad range of individuals, including those who are not clinicians. However, for the purposes of this funding opportunity, projects must be specifically focused on clinicians functioning within their licensed scope of practice to provide abortion care.
Projects are encouraged to leverage existing data collection efforts or data sources (eg, electronic health records, claims data). Data must be from the post-Dobbs period. Proposals positioned to produce findings with the greatest generalizability to US abortion care provided by clinicians under their licensed scope of practice will be given priority.
Proposals must be positioned to produce empirical evidence with a clear, concrete, and strategic path to influencing clinical education and training, public policy, health service delivery systems, and/or other structures that support the abortion care workforce. Teams must be attentive to the Society’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Vision.
Funds and Duration
We invite proposals for research studies with budgets up to $75,000 that can be completed within 18 months. We anticipate supporting up to four research projects via this funding opportunity. Funding is also available to cover processing fees associated with two open-access publications, provided the work is published within two years of grant completion.

Eligibility

Grants are limited, without exception, to tax-exempt organizations.Grants will be made to organizations on behalf of a named principal investigator (PI). Proof of the agency/institution’s tax-exempt status determination letter must be included.Applicants do not need to be members of the Society. Funding is limited to projects focused on the US.