📣 UPCOMING EVENT 📣
Join us as PHSRJ hosts a viewing party of "Plan C" - a documentary capturing the work of activists and providers who had to navigate providing abortion care during the pandemic and the crumbling reproductive rights & access across the US.
Please join us in discussing the article "Community-led research for reproductive justice: Exploring the SisterLove Georgia Medication Abortion project" (Mosley et al. 2022) with one of the authors, Indya Hairston. Via Zoom on April 9th from 12-1PM. Register on HopkinsGroups!
Join PHSRJ on May 11th at noon for the latest Abortion Journal Club - “Association Between State-Level Access to Reproductive Care and Suicide Rates Among Women of Reproductive Age in the United States” Please register and get a copy of the article by scanning the QR code!
People seeking abortions—who are disproportionately poor folks & people of color—are often delayed or even denied care by unnecessary laws that aren’t grounded in any scientific evidence whatsoever. The tragic state of abortion access in the U.S. is a public health crisis. #NPHW
We support workers. As a leading SRH org at the nation's top school of public health, we no longer feel comfortable including @Guttmacher publications in JHSPH Abortion Journal Club and will continue to name @Guttmacher as an abusive employer in our advocacy & research seminars.
We’ve reached the end of our rope in negotiating voluntary recognition for our #Union@Guttmacher was only willing to give us a seat at the table IF we agreed to stay silent about real problems in the workplace
President Biden will urge states and cities to use unspent money from last year’s $1.9T Covid relief package to fund crime prevention programs and hire police officers. https://t.co/aWLTOesHww
THANK YOU to everyone who helped make our menstrual equity drive such a huge success❣️
Because of this incredible collective effort, we were able to donate 5,000+ menstrual products! 170 complete period care kits will be distributed throughout Baltimore by a community partner!
To launch our new @JohnsHopkinsSPH course "Disability in Public Health" we are featuring lectures open to the public! So thrilled to have @DorfmanDoron be our 1st guest to talk about an ever-present issue "The Disability Con". Register and learn more! https://t.co/YtTfVhnKhQ
Join PHSRJ next Tuesday, April 12th at noon for the latest Abortion Journal Club! This month we’ll be reading “The State of Induced Abortion in Burkina Faso” by Bell et al.
Please register to get the Zoom link and a copy of the article: https://t.co/EQ8Tl7fUbM
Founded by @BlkMamasMatter, #BlackMaternalHealthWeek is a week of awareness, activism & community-building aimed at amplifying the voices of Black Mamas & centering values + traditions of the reproductive & birth justice movements. #BMHW22
Learn more: https://t.co/2l2M9YnjwP!
🚨 Breaking News!!! Lizelle has been released on bail and has secured legal counsel. With permission from her family, Frontera Fund has started a legal defense and reconciliation fund to support Lizelle and her family.
Donate here ➡️ https://t.co/BgqPHA4NON
#Justice4Lizelle
@LaFronteraFund started a Lizelle Herrera Legal Defense and Reconciliation Fund, and you can donate here:➡️ https://t.co/fdAWSrCig5
@reprolegalfund will continue to cover Lizelle’s litigation expenses, and you can donate here: ➡️https://t.co/QCFEzuGcI9
URGENT NEED FOR ACTION: Lizelle Herrera is a Texas woman who has been wrongly arrested and charged with murder for allegedly inducing her own abortion. She is being held on $500,000 bond. Take action to #FreeLizelle and follow @LaFronteraFund for updates!
JHU's Student National Medical Association will hold “Supporting the Black Birthing Experience: A Roundtable Discussion” next Wednesday, April 13th at 6pm! The event will be held both in person and on Zoom.
RSVP today by midnight: https://t.co/BenCxUiU3H
Next Tuesday I have the pleasure to facilitate this @PHSRJ_JH AJC with my mentor & professor, Dr. Suzanne Bell. We will discuss findings from our recent study in Burkina Faso that used social network-based methods to estimate induced abortion incidence & safety. Register w/ link!