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The Informed Consent Project
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Jun 01, 2021
In 2013, Cynthia Daniels and a team of researchers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, founded the Informed Consent Project. Daniels…
OrganizationAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionInformed Consent
The March of Dimes Foundation
By: Ajeet Bains
| Published: May 17, 2021
The March of Dimes Foundation, or the March of Dimes, is a non-profit organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, focused on the health of…
OrganizationsPoliomyelitisInfantile ParalysisPolioBirth Defects
Thesis: Non-Medical Origins of Reproductive Health Solutions in the US
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Feb 23, 2021
By demonstrating the struggle for sound standard of care for non-medical reproductive health care providers during the nineteenth and early twentieth…
Health care reformReproductive Health ServicesReproductive Healthreproductive historyOrganizations
“Reproductive Injustice: Racial and Gender Discrimination in U.S. Healthcare” (2014), by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Feb 10, 2021
In 2014, the Center for Reproductive Rights, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and the National Latina Institute for…
LiteratureRacismRacism in social servicesRacism in public administrationRacism in medicine
AFRIpads
By: Emily Santora
| Published: Jan 25, 2021
In 2010, Sophia and Paul Grinvalds founded the organization AFRIpads in Kampala, Uganda, to provide reusable cloth pads to menstruating women and…
OrganizationMenstrual CycleFeminine Hygiene ProductsMenstrual Hygiene ProductsSanitary napkins
Revive & Restore’s Woolly Mammoth Revival Project
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Jan 19, 2021
In 2015, Revive & Restore launched the Woolly Mammoth Revival Project with a goal of engineering a creature with genes from the woolly mammoth…
conservationAnimal diversity conservationWildlife conservationgene editingbioethics
Revive & Restore (2012– )
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Dec 16, 2020
Revive and Restore is a California-based nonprofit that uses genetic engineering to help solve conservation problems, such as saving endangered…
OrganizationExtinction (Biology)MammothsMammuthusWoolly mammoth
Thesis: Surprising Religious and Republican Roots to Planned Parenthood: An Arizona Case Study
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Dec 14, 2020
The social and political history surrounding Planned Parenthood Arizona illustrates the interplay between politics and the reproductive rights…
Politics and governmentWorld politicsPoliticsPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaCase Study
The Doula Project (2007– )
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Nov 27, 2020
The Doula Project, cofounded in 2007 as The Abortion Doula Project by Mary Mahoney, Lauren Mitchell, and Miriam Zoila Perez, is a nonprofit…
OrganizationAbortionPro-choice movementNatural childbirthWomen's health services
Thesis: The Human Genome Project and ELSI: The Imperative of Technology and Reduction of the Public Ethics Debate
By: Tito Brige Carvalho
| Published: Nov 20, 2020
Portrayed as the Manhattan Project of the late 20th century, the Human Genome Project, or HGP, not only undertook the science of sequencing the human…
ethicsMoralityHuman Genome ProjectGenome Project, HumanOrganizations