Overview
Drs. Andrea Swartzendruber and Danielle Lambert publicly released CPC Map in 2018. CPC Map was the first, and remains the only, scientifically rigorous national CPC directory.
CPC Map’s goals are to:
Drs. Andrea Swartzendruber and Danielle Lambert publicly released CPC Map in 2018. CPC Map was the first, and remains the only, scientifically rigorous national CPC directory.
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 has informed policy, advocacy, position statements, and medical guidelines. For example, the Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation (SAD) Act, introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate, 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 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. CPC Map studies were also cited in an open letter from 16 state attorneys general regarding CPC misinformation and harm.
The CPC Map Team’s research also has informed international, national, and state health and medicine position statements on CPCs (e.g., Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, American Medical Association, Indiana Academy of Family Physicians).
CPC Map has also informed recommendations issued by major medical organizations (e.g., American Academy of Pediatrics, American Public Health Association).
CPC Map has helped raise awareness about CPCs through countless news articles published by international, national, regional, and media outlets, such as:
CPC Map has facilitated increased awareness and academic research about CPCs by sharing data with journalists and researchers across the country, including:
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 resulting in direct clinical and policy recommendations for improving 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 the use of digital technologies to improve epidemiologic studies and to improve 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 >15 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.