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May 7, 2025
Think Global Health
Reimagining Sexual and Reproductive Health Without U.S. Involvement Anu Kumar
April 25, 2024
In These Times
Project 2025 Is Already Here Gillian Kane
December 14, 2023
President Biden says he’s fighting back against abortion bans. He’s ignoring the oldest one Anu Kumar and Akila Radhakrishnan
December 11, 2023
Dr. Anu Kumar
Let’s stop talking about decolonizing global health and development and actually make it happen. Here’s what Ipas is doing. 
October 10, 2023
Dr. Anu Kumar
Australia’s support for safe abortion globally Bettina Baldeschi, Daile Kelleher and Dr. Anu Kumar
January 31, 2023
Dr. Anu Kumar and Loretta Ross
Global Reproductive Justice Is What We Need Right Now Ms. Magazine
January 23, 2023
Dr. Anu Kumar
Activism for Abortion Rights and Access Is Global: What the United States Can Learn from the Rest of the World Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
December 15, 2022
Dr. Angela Akol
How Africa can gain from International Conference on Family Planning The Nation
October 18, 2022
Dr. Anu Kumar
Abortions Are Legal in Ethiopia. But Half of These Clinics Won’t Provide Them. New York Times
June 24, 2022
Dr. Anu Kumar
With the Fall of Roe, Abortion Rights Groups and Grant Makers Should Look Overseas for Inspiration on The Chronicle of Philanthropy
May 26, 2022
Dr. Anu Kumar
The U.S. is falling behind as countries around the world expand abortion access 
May 26, 2022
Dr. Anu Kumar
US Dangerously Out of Step on Abortion Access 
May 25, 2022
Gillian Kane
How will laws against abortion be enforced? Other countries offer chilling examples 
March 25, 2022
Dr. Anu Kumar
The whole world is watching for Biden’s plan to protect abortion rights Anu Kumar and Akila Radhakrishnan
December 30, 2021
Dr. Anu Kumar
Five years from now, who will be setting the global health agenda? 
November 11, 2021
Gillian Kane
‘Traditional Values’ Unite Both Sides in a New Ideological Cold War 
August 10, 2021
Access to abortion is a human right. International development actors must not ignore it. on Medium.com
July 13, 2021
Gillian Kane
Who are right-wing forces that attacked Georgia’s LGBTIQ+ ? 
June 19, 2021
Dr. Anu Kumar
Shaping a post-colonial INGO 
June 4, 2021
Bethany van Kampen
Biden’s Budget Keeps Campaign Promise but Neglects Global Commitments 
January 27, 2021
Anu Kumar and Bethany Van Kampen
The Global Gag Rule Is Just the First Step if We Want To Champion Reproductive Freedom for All in Ms. Magazine
December 17, 2020
Bethany van Kampen
The Helms Amendment: 47 Years of Denying U.S. Support for International Reproductive Health and Rights Anu Kumar
November 2, 2020
Gillian Kane
How Trump is speeding up the religious war on women’s bodies globally 
October 22, 2020
Gillian Kane
Aliança antiaborto proposta pelos EUA com apoio do Brasil afronta direitos das mulheres 
October 15, 2020
Anu Kumar and Patty Skuster
America must stop using international aid to export anti-abortion ideology in The New Humanitarian
September 15, 2020
Anu Kumar
Decolonizing health care a Facebook Live conversation
August 7, 2020
Anu Kumar and Serra Sippel
It’s past time to be rid of the legacy of Jesse Helms in The Hill
August 5, 2020
Monica Oguttu
How many women have to die because of bad U.S. policies? in Medium
June 18, 2020
Anu Kumar
White Supremacy in Global Health 
May 26, 2020
Anu Kumar
Another Egregious Attack on Reproductive Health by Trump Administration 
May 7, 2020
Anu Kumar
Keeping women’s health essential despite Covid-19 shortages 
April 27, 2020
Anu Kumar
Opinion: During COVID-19 crisis, lift barriers to reproductive health care — including abortion for Devex
April 1, 2020
Vinoj Manning
Notes From the Field: Abortion is Essential Health Care 
April 1, 2020
Gillian Kane
The Mission Field Hospital 
March 24, 2020
Anu Kumar
Living Into Leadership As A Woman Of Color: Sexism And Subtle Bias from Forbes
March 5, 2020
Anu Kumar
The global, national and local impacts of Trump’s war on reproductive freedom 
February 3, 2020
Anu Kumar
It’s Time To Face The Facts: We Have A Gender And Diversity Problem In The Nonprofit World 
January 24, 2020
Anu Kumar
The anti-abortion “Global Gag Rule” turns 36 years old on KPFA’s Upfront (beginning at 0:34)
January 13, 2020
Africa Today on KPFA’s Africa Today
December 9, 2019
Anu Kumar
Opinion: Time to put abortion top of the SRHR agenda 
November 20, 2019
Tanvi Monga
Watered-Down Words Jeopardize Women and Girls 
August 2, 2019
Gillian Kane
Trump’s is not the first US administration to ignore facts, and slash aid for women’s healthcare 
June 10, 2019
Vinoj Manning
‘The ratio of doctors and abortions is totally skewed’ in The Hindu
May 1, 2019
Tamara Fetters, Bill Powell, Dr. Sayed Rubayet and Dr. Shamila Nahar
Overcoming myths and misconceptions: expanding access to safe abortion services in humanitarian settings 
April 23, 2019
Anu Kumar
While U.S. states push to criminalize abortion, other countries are liberalizing laws 
April 18, 2019
Gillian Kane
Why Trump’s US is wrong on abortion and what it can learn from Rwanda 
March 19, 2019
Anu Kumar
We Can’t Let the Trump Administration Dismantle Women’s Rights Around the World 
March 18, 2019
US accused of trying to dilute global agreements on women’s rights in The Guardian
March 6, 2019
Tamara Fetters, Bill Powell, Sayed Rubayet and Shamila Nahar
Using human-centered design to explore Rohingya refugee perceptions about sexual and reproductive health in Bangladesh 
November 14, 2018
Dr. Sayed Rubayet
The invisible problem: SRHR in humanitarian settings Facebook Live conversation at International Conference on Family Planning