Guttmacher Institute
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Headquarters Location: New York, NY
Founded: 1968
Mission: The Guttmacher Institute advances sexual and reproductive health through an interrelated program of social science research, policy analysis and public education designed to generate new ideas, encourage enlightened public debate and promote sound policy and program development.
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national, women's reproductive health, research, advocacy, policy, public education, contraception, abortion, pregnancy, adolescent sexual health, relationships, health care
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Leadership
Sharon Camp.
Sharon L. Camp is President and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute, the leading policy research organization in the field of sexual and reproductive health. Prior to joining Guttmacher, Dr. Camp was President and CEO of Women’s Capital Corporation, a start-up company responsible for the development and commercialization of Plan B emergency contraception. For many years the leading spokesperson in Washington,…
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$16,223,174
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Story:
The Guttmacher Center was originally constituted as a semiautonomous division of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). At the time, Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon had begun to call the public's attention to the problem of unplanned and unwanted childbearing and its consequences for individual women and men, their children and their communities both at home and abroad. Concurrently, the United States Congress was taking its first steps toward the development of an international population assistance program, as well as a multifaceted, national program aimed at providing equitable access to modern methods of birth control in the United States.
Its early development was nurtured by Alan F. Guttmacher, an eminent obstetrician-gynecologist, teacher and writer who was PPFA's president for more than a decade until his death in 1974. He joined the birth control movement in the 1920s when he was an intern, after witnessing a woman die from a botched abortion. In Baltimore, he was an effective advocate, organizer and worker for family planning at The Johns Hopkins and Sinai Hospitals and the Planned Parenthood affiliate. Following his appointment as Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital in 1952, he assumed increasing leadership of the national Planned Parenthood organization, first as member, then as volunteer chairman of Planned Parenthood's National Medical Committee and, in 1962, as full-time national President. In the 1960s he took major responsibility for the work of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, serving as chairman of its Medical Committee and travelling to scores of Asian, African, and Latin American nations to lecture to physicians, work with program personnel, talk with ordinary people and meet with heads of state. The Center was renamed in Dr. Guttmacher's memory, and the Guttmacher Institute became an independent, not-for-profit corporation in 1977. (Source: http://www.guttmacher.org/about/history.html, http://www.guttmacher.org/about/alan-bio.html)
Expert Reviews of Guttmacher Institute
Evidence of Impact Summary:
Guttmacher is repeatedly heralded as the leading research and data provider in the field of reproductive rights. Further, their advocacy efforts are praised as critical to advancing the national policy agenda.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Research quality and staff excellence, from the top down, are praised by most every expert.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Many experts describe ways in which Guttmacher could expand or refine its research offerings. Though many praised its timeliness, others thought the research and policy efforts could be more nimble. Multiple experts expressed a desire for advocacy efforts to be acknowledged and enhanced.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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The field needs a strong research arm and Guttmacher provides the most relevant and well-publicized information to the field, to the media, and beyond. | ||
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They provide top quality and evidence-based research. This is crucial for the progressive side of the movement, as they are trusted and viewed as objective. They have long-time expertise in policy. | ||
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The Guttmacher Institute has rightly been credited with an important role in a number of state and local policy victories. Their research and advocacy related to Medicaid waivers was instrumental in the eventual victory this year on that topic. The wide range of research they produce through journals and working papers pervades our field. | ||
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They provide evidence based information on reproductive health and policy. | ||
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They provide population based analysis of sexual and reproductive health that provides a starting point for the work of others. They also create research that starts in policy and ends in policy. They have been instrumental in keeping the issue of abortion provider shortage at the forefront and have been instrumental in defining abortion access. Finally, they rapidly respond to policy issues. | ||
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They provide policy relevant research findings that are widely disseminated to the public and policymakers. | ||
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They provide some of the most specific and up-to-date information in order to make the case for reproductive health issues. | ||
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Guttmacher's impact can be expressed in the quality of its research and packaging of the research for media release. | ||
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Their research is generally widely known with far reaching lists. | ||
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The Guttmacher Institute performs research and education around reproductive health. As an organization, they are very effective at communicating the public health implications of unintended pregnancy. For those of us who provide reproductive health care, their research and publications are crucial in advancing our work. The media kits, fact sheets, and state policies in brief are excellent resources for rapidly learning state laws and reproductive health policies. | ||
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They provide data and analysis that becomes the cornerstone of arguments that support reproductive rights and access - both for advocacy groups and policymakers. | ||
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Provides in-depth data and analysis of issues related to reproductive health. They are a trusted organization by both pro-choice and pro-life communities. | ||
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The Guttmacher institute is the go-to organization for reliable reproductive health data. | ||
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Guttmacher performs high quality research that is used to effect policy change. They are one of the main organizations that perform nationally representative research on abortion in the US. | ||
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They provide some of the most specific and up-to-date information in order to make the case for reproductive health issues. | ||
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They provide high-quality research on reproductive and sexual health. | ||
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They have developed a niche in research that is generally well-respected, policy relevant and international in focus. They are often cited in the media and by policy makers. | ||
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The research conducted by the Guttmacher Institute is the most respected in the field. Their staff members are highly trained and their policy and communications department is significant. | ||
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They provide data collection and analysis relevant to important reproductive health issues. | ||
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Guttmacher research informs a broad variety of issues relating to family planning and reproductive health. | ||
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This is the organization for producing accurate and important research on reproductive health. They provide advocacy and important intellectual contributions. | ||
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They are highly respected for monitoring the state of reproductive health. | ||
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They provide evidence-based research and policy reports especially as it relates to abortion care. | ||
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What can I say? They are THE go to source for evidence based facts on reproductive issues in the states and internationally. Their research is impeccable, their breath, and timeliness is always mind-boggling. | ||
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Their fact sheets are very helpful. | ||
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They provide educational, social, and political activity for women's reproductive health. | ||
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Guttmacher has a huge impact. They produce all of the general statistics about reproductive health. | ||
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They are the leading data and research organization in the field. | ||
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They conduct high quality, population level research that provides data on reproductive health measures upon which policy makers make decisions. Their data capture media headlines and can drive public opinion regarding reproductive health issues. | ||
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Their impact can be understood in terms of the quality and timeliness of their research and the dissemination and articulation of this research in a manner accessible by average folk. I also think their lobbying capacity in DC is among the very best. | ||
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Guttmacher has represented national and international reproductive rights, health, and justice issues in a very professional sound manner. | ||
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Their policy and practice changes represent the Guttmacher Institute's impact. | ||
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Their data are cited in numerous places and sought by numerous groups, of both parties and on all sides. They simply dominate the data aspect of our field. | ||
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They offer high quality research that provides the underpinnings for needed policy change. | ||
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Guttmacher produces the research on which the advocacy and programs of other organizations are based. The high quality research Guttmacher undertakes helps guide the field and thus has a critical impact on all other efforts. | ||
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Guttmacher's publications and analysis have provided trusted, careful evidence in support of reproductive health for many years. | ||
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They provide the basic research that our movement needs to evaluate our efforts, identify gaps and issues, and shed light on the current reproductive health needs in the world. They do this in a scientific, un-biased way and keep working to make their data accessible and user-friendly. | ||
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The Guttmacher Institute has helped to advance sexual and reproductive health in the United States through cutting-edge social science research, policy analysis, and public education programs. Their expertise in the area of reproductive health research has really helped to advance the dialogue around public policy and has helped other organizations advocate more effectively based on sound statistical data. | ||
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They have 40 years of accomplishments in advancing sexual and reproductive health in US and worldwide through research, policy analysis, and education to raise awareness, influence public policy, develop programs, and help individuals make decisions about their reproductive health. Guttmacher's analysis, reporting, and public policy related to Medicaid expansion and access issues have been significant. | ||
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Their research is critical to so many organizations in the field, which use it in their advocacy efforts to help shape public policy on the issue and responses to the opposition. | ||
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They provide scientific evidence of reproductive health issues. | ||
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They publish high quality research and political analysis that is well disseminated and widely used. | ||
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Strong research into family planning and abortion service issues. Their material is valued and used by a wide audience. | ||
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They offer credible, serious research organization with clear media and communications strategy. | ||
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Their data is essential for good policy. | ||
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Contributions to getting Medicaid Family Planning Option in Health Reform (their body of research, policy-relevant documents, and expertise have been essential). | ||
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They have strong research and communications. Guttmacher does an outstanding job providing data that the movement needs to advance its goals and has developed excellent communications tools that help people who aren't research professionals to understand and talk about the data accurately. | ||
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They provide critical behavioral reproductive health science that informs the field in numerous ways. They educate a wide range of advocates, consumers, health care providers, CEOS, and policy makers of reproductive health trends, users, and providers of Mifepristone information. This info can be used to help create policy and educational programs for a wide range of users. | ||
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The Guttmacher Institute plays a unique and invaluable role in the movement. They are the go-to people for research in the field; their research is important in policy, court, and opinion work. | ||
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They structure their research to support an advocacy agenda without compromising the credibility of research or their organization. They have extremely high credibility on Capitol Hill. Their research affects how people think about and discuss issues; they also provide important tools for advocates across the country. | ||
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Through the years they remain the group to whom everyone turns for information, research, and legislative expertise. | ||
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By providing accurate information based on thorough, credible research, the Guttmacher Institute provides a critical backstop to the misinformation and outright deception that is often marshaled to support anti-choice initiatives. Accurate information alone may not be enough, but it certainly helps. For example, Guttmacher's research on the impact of the lack of public funding for abortion has led to more philanthropy directed to low-income women and has assisted court victories restoring public funding under state constitutions. | ||
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Their research is of the highest quality and policy oriented and accessible (written in understandable language for policy makers). | ||
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They provide high quality researching which features professional information Education is another example of their impact. | ||
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The trainings they are doing internationally are very impressive, as well as the facts and research they provide internally. | ||
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The reliability and breadth of information services provided by Guttmacher is critical in my efforts to teach in this area and to counter misinformation. | ||
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Their staff members are outstanding and have a long history of identifying key issues and how to create research projects that produce important insights into all nature of issues in the field. Once again, the leadership is strong, experienced, and strategic. | ||
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They maintain their staff for decades and thus are a model for how to have a strong internal culture. Their staff members are very smart. | ||
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They have a great staff that is highly educated and professional. | ||
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They have an outstanding professional staff, great dissemination strategies, and have a terrific website that is easy to use. | ||
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They have a strong cadre of researchers. | ||
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They are excellent demographers/researchers who are very visible in the reproductive health community. | ||
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They have an excellent staff who listen to constituencies, very thorough scientific processes, and an excellent writing staff. | ||
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Their senior staff is strong and their materials are detailed and complete. | ||
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They have a seasoned staff and exhibit political savvy. | ||
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They have great staff members. | ||
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Their staff members are all smart, productive, energetic, and focused on reproductive health services. | ||
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They have among the longest-serving staff in the field as well as substantial policy, regulatory and technical knowledge. | ||
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They have a deep management team with great experience and expertise across departments including research and policy. Their cross-department fertilization and coordination seems excellent. | ||
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The staff members are remarkably helpful, in terms of directing others in the field to research, helping us understand research, and in general. They are also credible. | ||
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Extremely competent and sophisticated staff and good policy skills. | ||
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The staff has been around a long time and has incredible expertise. Their respect from the Hill is unparalleled. | ||
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They have a strong brand and staff. | ||
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I think Guttmacher's main strength is the consistency and focus of its mission. While they have had leadership changes, there is a core of staff-- who at any given moment who understands their strengths and sees to the preservation of the core mission even as there are ups and downs in the external world. | ||
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They have a strong staff, respected, and well networked policy staff. They also have effective strategic communications around their research and ambitious leadership. The large Guttmacher board gives them relationships with a number of key institutions and individuals. | ||
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They have superior leadership and organizational competency. | ||
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The leadership and staff are very well respected and very collegial. Their communications department is very effective in sharing results so they have the biggest impact. | ||
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Guttmacher has strong leadership in Sharon Camp (and her predecessors) and in its staff. | ||
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The organization is extremely well run, the leadership is tremendous, and the staff is highly knowledgeable and creative. | ||
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There is a strong connection between people who work on the policy side of things and people conducting research so that the work that is carried out is accessible and relevant to policy audiences. There is also a lot of effort to disseminate research findings to the general public through mass media. Finally, their research focuses on current pressing issues. For example, work was carried out to determine the effects of the economic crisis on reproductive health. | ||
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The website with readily available data is extremely valuable for researchers, journalists, etc. | ||
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They do quality research and are seen as competent leaders in the field. | ||
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Timely analysis of relevant public policies. | ||
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They have solid science. | ||
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They do great research and push tough question to the field. | ||
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The depth of policy and research staff is very strong. | ||
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Research and accessibility of information are strengths. | ||
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Their research integrity and staff are strengths. | ||
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They have great staff and research. | ||
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Their staff is approachable, knowledgeable, and helpful. They are quoted, and I believe respected, by both sides of the abortion debate. Their website is awesome; you can create slides with data from your state, they have printable facts sheets, etc. | ||
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The quality and depth of its research and the expertise of its staff in the social sciences. | ||
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Their research has credibility in the public sphere. Their staff is knowledgeable and responsive. They are excellent partners in advocacy and other work. | ||
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Strong researchers are in the staff. | ||
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They have a smart and strategic staff and an ability to do policy-relevant research. | ||
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Their strengths include: leadership, creativity of research topics, online and hard copy of products, and staff, staff, staff! | ||
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They are a well-run organization with dedicated staff. They carry out research around reproductive health topics in a productive fashion. | ||
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Guttmacher is dependable and has great PR. | ||
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The research and communications staff is exceptional. They work well with advocates and are excellent collaborators. | ||
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They offer quality research and strong policy work. | ||
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Their research is of the highest quality. | ||
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Excellent website with fact sheets that are useful for policy makers, physicians, educators, and organizers. | ||
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Guttmacher's expertise is highly regarded by policy makers at national, state and local levels. They're known as a trustworthy source of data and policy analysis on sexual and reproductive health and related issues. | ||
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They produce very useful reports, research, and numbers. I use them when I need to do a presentation or grant proposal. | ||
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Guttmacher is the most trusted research organization in this area and its statistical data and careful science make it absolutely invaluable for advocates. | ||
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They get good behavioral research out. The reproductive health community needs this kind of information to help inform policy. | ||
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I do not know the internal workings of the organizations well enough to answer effectively, other than to say that the research is unfailingly honest, thorough, and supportive. | ||
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They are well respected and have a high quality of staff and publications. | ||
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They have a strong academic core and make good use of funding. | ||
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The Guttmacher Institute does important research but it is expensive. Its policy and advocacy work is especially effective. | ||
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Their leadership and staff, from Sharon Camp to Susan Cohen to Sneha Barot to Leila Darrabi, is top notch and collaborative. I also find their marketing and PR materials to be no nonsense and straightforward, which is a plus. | ||
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This organization is very financially stable and is known for its expert staff. | ||
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They have a good communications department. | ||
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They have strong research and effective presentations. | ||
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Guttmacher provides a critical role as a resource to all other members of the reproductive rights advocacy community by providing scientifically accurate, up to date research we can all refer to in promoting women's health causes. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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Their policy arm could be more open to new approaches to getting sexual rights and reproductive rights de-ghettoized and bringing in new voices. There seems to be some positive movement on this. | ||
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Their advocacy work (apart for their research and analysis) can be somewhat old and tired. There is not a lot of fresh thinking in their advocacy. | ||
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Guttmacher's PowerPoint presentations could be more effective through the use of a graphic designer and some additional training on effective presentations. | ||
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Some of the reports tend to be too academic in nature and might be made more accessible to the general audience. | ||
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With increased funding, they could do even more educational outreach. | ||
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Being based in New York, their expenses are relatively high. This organization could potentially achieve the same work in a less expensive location. | ||
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They could have greater collaboration with smaller research programs to help develop in-state expertise. | ||
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They could make better coalition efforts. | ||
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They should partner more with key organizations to heighten impact of their work. Science shouldn't just live in an ivory tower- research organizations should partner to ground the science and impact the field. | ||
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They could strengthen the reproductive health field by undertaking service delivery (operations) research. | ||
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They should expand their interests to broader range of women's health issues. | ||
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I would like to see them engaged in international advocacy in a way that makes better strategic sense. I also wish they would share some of their lessons learned more broadly, particularly from working at the advocacy/research divide. | ||
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They could solicit field for areas of research needed to affect practice change. | ||
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Guttmacher could also develop capacity to evaluate new developments in reproductive health services and programming. It is sometimes slow to react to these developments. | ||
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It would be possible for them to do more qualitative research. | ||
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Expand programs focused on building public awareness and support for sexual health and reproductive rights. Expand programs and policies to reduce the rising rates of maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S. and among developed and developing countries. | ||
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They should connect research to service delivery changes and use information to direct best practices. | ||
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The research that comes out of Guttmacher is not very deep and sometimes is not tied to the reality of reproductive health service provision. | ||
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There's very little to no involvement from clinician researchers on their staff. | ||
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They present themselves as a research group but they should acknowledge their advocacy position as well. They are not unbiased. | ||
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Their research is often out of date. It would be more helpful if it could be more current. | ||
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They could be more timely in their choice of topics. | ||
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They can be slow to move because of how long research and writing articles can take. I sense that the org has "seen it all before" and has lost enthusiasm for the effort. | ||
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There could be better dissemination of the implications of its research and more focus on media. | ||
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They'd strengthen their work by working more with the provider community on projects that ground their research into changes in clinical practice outcomes. | ||
Leadership
Sharon Camp
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