Focus on the Future: Revisiting the Family Planning Research Agenda

This report, which was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Family Planning within the Office of Population Affairs (OPA), summarizes the status of recent family planning service delivery research that has been conducted to identify areas for further investigation.

The Urban Institute and Altarum Institute, two Washington, D,C., nonprofit research organizations, have conducted an extensive review of the literature that was published on this topic from 2003 to 2011. The review summarizes the findings and identifies preliminary gaps to inform this assessment. In addition, we convened a panel of 17 experts in the field to comment on the state of family planning service delivery research and to point to important areas that need further investigation.