Guttmacher Institute Inc

Communications and publications: the institute shaped and informed media coverage and public database on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues throughout 2022. we strategically disseminated the institute's evidence and analyses in range of formats and across a multitude of platforms, targeting key stakeholders and influencers including advocates; health care providers; policymakers and their staff; media; and the scientific community. the overturning of roe v. wade and the enormous harm this unprecedented supreme court decision unleashed accross the united states dominated much of our domestic communications work in 2022. some of the most noteworthy accomplishments included launching an interactive map in june that allows users to track state policies in near-real time and offers key contextual information on abortion data in each state; that map generated about 300,000 page views by the end of the year. furthermore, our media relations efforts shattered all previous records, as our team responded to more than 2,400 media requests and helped to achieve close to 70,000 mentions of the institute and its work in news stories, including numerous articles and segments throughout the year in leading outlets like the new york times, the washington post, usa today, associated press, reuters and the guardian, as well as top-tier broadcasters like npr, nbc news, abc news, cbs news, and numerous regional, state and local news outlets. social media channels were another focal point of our work: we kept our almost 98,300 followers accross twitter, instagram, facebook and linkedin informed with a steady stream of timely posts and impactful graphics and short videos. finally, our website received a total of 12,830,215 page views in 2022. our communication team focused internationally on capacity strengthening initiatives aimed at supporting partners in lower and middle income countries in translating evidence into programmatic and policy change. in addition, our communications team supported the dissemination of the first-ever country-level estimates of abortion and unintended pregnancy for 150 countries. our communications & publications team also collaborated with guttmacher scientists to create and disseminate the family planning investment impact calculator, a new interactive online tool that allows users to estimate the health benefits of investing in family planning in lower and middle income countries.

Public policy: in 2022, guttmacher again played a prominent role in advocating for evidence-based policies. following the supreme court's ruling that overturned roe v. wade, the institute's policy team responded rapidly to track the subsequent flurry of state-level abortion bans and restricitons. our interactive map of state laws and policies was one of the most widely cited sources for information on reproductive rights accross the country in 2022 guttmacher policy staff also worked directly with state lawmakers and advocates seeking to protect access to reproductive health care, serving as a catalyst for evidence-based policies and outlining ways that states could bolster access to care. the institute's experts were cited widely in prominent media outlets throughout the year as journalists and the public sought to make sense of the new legal landscape. guttmacher also promoted access to sexual and reproductive health care for people in lower and middle income countries. shortly after roe was overturned, our team published policy analyses on the potential ripple effects of the supreme court's decision overseas, calling on policymakers to shore up protections in the face of a well-funded, globalized anti-abortion movement. the institute also worked with policy partners in africa, asia and latin america to advance evidence-based policies, including efforts to include sexual and reproductive health care in countries' universal health coverage plans. in congress, our evidence-based advocacy efforts played a key role in efforts