Who We Are & Impact
Drs. Andrea Swartzendruber and Danielle Lambert, faculty within the University of Georgia’s College of Public Health, publicly released CPC Map in 2018. CPC Map was the first, and remains the only, scientifically rigorous national CPC directory. Since 2018, data have been updated nationally in 2021, 2024, and 2026.
CPC Map’s goals are to:
Goal 1
Help individuals seeking health services know which centers are CPCs.
Goal 2
Increase knowledge and awareness about CPCs.
Goal 3
Facilitate academic research related to CPCs.
CPC Map research plays a meaningful role in shaping public policy, advocacy efforts, position statements by major medical and public health professional organizations, and clinical guidelines.
For example, CPC Map data has informed legal proceedings, including cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and federal district courts. CPC Map research has been cited in amicus briefs, legal filings, and public warnings issued by state attorneys general. The Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation (SAD) Act, first introduced in 2023 in both the U.S. House (2023-2024 & 2025-2026) and Senate (2023-2024 & 2025-2026), cited CPC Map’s baseline findings published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Public Health & Surveillance. CPC Map findings comprise the Acts’ only reference to data published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The same JMIR article ranks in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric, which tracks online attention to published research to see where research is making a difference. In 2023, a coalition of 16 attorneys general referenced CPC Map research in a joint open letter addressing concerns about CPC misinformation and consumer protections.
Beyond legislation and litigation, CPC Map research contributes to national medical and public health guidelines. It has informed position statements and recommendations from leading organizations such as the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Public Health Association, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, and Indiana Academy of Family Physicians.
Additionally, respected public health organizations and care providers—including the Chicago Department of Public Health, Planned Parenthood, and the City of Philadelphia—reference CPC Map in their efforts to inform communities about reproductive health resources. Major service locators such as Abortion Finder, Bedsider, and INeedAnA.com also rely on CPC Map data to help ensure accuracy in identifying legitimate healthcare providers.
In recent years, CPC Map and its research team have been featured in countless news articles published by major international, national, regional, and local media outlets, such as:
CPC Map is a foundational resource for researchers and journalists studying and reporting on crisis pregnancy centers and reproductive health. To support these efforts, CPC Map provides data access to qualified investigators and journalists across the country, including:
CPC Map continues to serve as a trusted, data-driven resource at the intersection of research, policy, advocacy, and public health—empowering individuals and organizations with accurate information to support informed decision-making.
Dr. Swartzendruber earned her MPH in Global Health from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and PhD in Women’s, Reproductive, and Perinatal Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences Department at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. She joined UGA as an Assistant Professor in 2016 and was granted promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in 2020.
Dr. Swartzendruber has >25 years of public health program and research experience. Prior to earning her PhD, she worked for nine years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She coordinated a multi-site randomized controlled trial of a behavioral HIV prevention intervention among young injection drug users and independently provided technical assistance to Ministries of Health and US Government field offices in Africa and Asia to expand, evaluate, and improve clinical services and national programs to prevent perinatal HIV transmission.
Dr. Swartzendruber’s research focuses on women’s sexual and reproductive health and maternal and child health. Her research interests reflect a comprehensive view of health and wellbeing, spanning individual and social determinants of health, service delivery, and health policy. In line with a life course perspective, much of Dr. Swartzendruber’s research focuses on health behavior, health services, and outcomes during critical periods and life transitions, particularly adolescence and young adulthood, pregnancy, and parenting. Her publication record includes >55 peer-reviewed manuscripts, two book chapters, and >80 national and international conference presentations.
Dr. Lambert earned her MPH in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and PhD in Health Promotion and Behavior from the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics within the College of Public Health at UGA and then joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2021.
Over the past 13 years, Dr. Lambert has led or collaborated on numerous NIH, CDC, and privately funded studies that produced direct clinical and policy recommendations to improve equitable access to health-related services, especially in the South. Prior to beginning her faculty position, Dr. Lambert was the Director of Communications & Technology for a $100 million collaborative initiative to address health disparities contributing to the southern US HIV epidemic and served as a data analyst for the iTech Analytic Core within NIH’s Adolescent Medicine Trials Network (ATN) for HIV/AIDS Interventions.
Dr. Lambert’s research focuses largely on sexual and reproductive health, violence prevention, and mental health, primarily among adolescents and young adults. Her work aims to identify innovative strategies to bridge barriers to care with technological solutions by incorporating novel digital tools into research methodologies and capitalizing on the pervasiveness of modern communication channels. She is particularly interested in using digital technologies to improve epidemiologic studies and the accessibility and quality of public health services. She has expertise in mHealth, telehealth, geolocators, health communication, and data visualization. Dr. Lambert’s publication record includes >20 peer-reviewed manuscripts, a book chapter, and >60 abstracts at national and international scientific conferences.
The CPC Map Team includes, and has always included, undergraduate and graduate student research assistants from multiple disciplines, including:
The CPC Map Team is diverse in terms of discipline, race/ethnicity, sexual identity, gender identity, and inclusion of research fellows, interns, and students at differing levels of their educational and career paths.
Read the CPC Map Team’s scientific research publications.
