Documenting the Impact of US Policy and Legal Stressors on Contraceptive Care Grant

The Society of Family Planning invites research proposals to document the impact of US policy and legal stressors on contraceptive care, particularly for marginalized communities. With funding up to $150,000, proposals should aim to produce empirical evidence that can lead to changes in clinical practice and public policy. Emphasis is on enduring relevance amidst evolving legal landscapes, ensuring equitable access to contraception, and addressing systemic barriers faced by low-income and racially diverse populations.

Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
While the outcomes of this case and other actions are unknown, the likelihood of profound changes, especially within the contraceptive care safety net, is evident. These legal and policy stressors are layered upon systemic barriers to contraception that disproportionately affect people of color, low income individuals, and others experiencing structural oppression. To understand these impacts, the Society of Family Planning is offering the Documenting the impact of policy and legal stressors on contraceptive care funding opportunity.
Research Focus
We invite research proposals focused on documenting the impact of policy and legal stressors on contraceptive care in the US, with a focus on people who depend on the contraceptive care safety net. Teams are welcome to explore this topic at the healthcare system, institution, clinician, and/or patient level. Due to the rapidly evolving contraceptive care landscape, teams must prioritize research questions with enduring relevance and demonstrate thoughtfulness about how they can adapt their research methods in response to policy, legal, and service delivery changes.
Proposals must be positioned to produce empirical evidence with a clear, concrete, and strategic path to changes in clinical practice, public policy, or health service delivery. Teams must be attentive to the Society’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Vision and the Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access’s equity-informed principles for contraceptive access research. In addition, teams working with data related to race and racism or sex and gender should be attentive to recommendations for working with these data.
Funds and Duration
We invite proposals for research studies with budgets up to $150,000 that can be completed within 24 months. The Society anticipates supporting up to five projects. 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.