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A leading research collaborative focused on emerging issues in reproductive health and policy.
Resound Research for Reproductive Health is a leading research group that began as a university-based team in 2011 and launched as an independent collaborative in 2023. Our state-based, regional and national projects generate actionable evidence that can improve access to quality reproductive healthcare. Our work addresses the multifaceted barriers that hinder people’s reproductive autonomy.
Policies affecting abortion, contraception, and pregnancy care are constantly changing on both state and national levels. We strive to understand the systems, places, and people that have been—and continue to be—the most impacted.
Our collaborative team includes social scientists, healthcare providers, legal scholars, and policy experts. We work with community organizations and other partners to advance a shared vision of equitable reproductive health policies for people in all communities.
We lean into our longstanding relationships with collaborators in Texas and beyond, using local and regional context to understand the many implications of these changes.
We use quantitative and qualitative methods to assess both the scale of policy impacts and the diverse and nuanced ways policy changes affect healthcare providers and people needing reproductive healthcare. Because policies and their impacts are not confined to state borders, we take an expansive approach and capture emerging trends locally, regionally and nationally.
Grounded in a commitment to just and equitable care, many of our projects focus on identifying strategies that improve the quality of healthcare for people in socially and economically marginalized communities.
Our approach centers the experiences of people most impacted by policies in Texas and beyond. For more than a decade, our research has shown the importance of bringing local context and diverse perspectives to assess real world policy impacts.
Our research organization was founded in 2011 as the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP), a team based at The University of Texas at Austin. We launched as an independent collaborative fiscally sponsored by the Tides Center in 2023. For more than ten years, we have conducted rapid response state-based research and examined national legal and regulatory shifts affecting abortion and contraception. We have also led long-term projects on postpartum contraception and vasectomy decision making.
We have generated evidence that policy and legal advocates have used to successfully challenge restrictive laws in the courts and push for expanded access to healthcare in state legislatures.
Our research has demonstrated nuanced differences between places and communities and shown that policy impacts are not confined to state borders. Our perspective allows us to examine common experiences and share lessons learned.
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© 2024 Resound Research for Reproductive Health is fiscally sponsored by The Tides Center
