IRH was founded in 1985 as part of the Georgetown University Medical Center to address family planning gaps worldwide. The primary focus of our early work was meeting the global demand for fertility awareness-based, or natural, methods. This work included research on the development and implementation of new, easy-to-use fertility awareness-based methods of family planning.

Today our work is much broader. It touches many cross-cutting themes within reproductive health such as Family Planning, Adolescents, Gender Equality, Fertility Awareness, Strategic Scale-up, Mobilizing Technology for Reproductive Health, and Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation. We also go beyond research and development of new reproductive health tools and focus on introduction and scale-up of sustainable approaches.

Our work has been made possible thanks to Georgetown University, USAID, partners both centrally and in field programs, and the thousands of wome

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Through partnership with international and local organizations, the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University strives to:

• expand family planning choices to meet the needs of women and men worldwide;
• advance gender equality by helping women and men across the lifecycle learn about and take charge of their reproductive health; and
• involve communities in reproductive health interventions that improve their wellbeing.

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