ADVOCACY
At this practice, you get more than a physician—you get an advocate.
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We not only develop care plans for our patients, we educate them and help them become advocates for their own health. We are champions for increased funding, greater clinical awareness, and inclusive approaches to improve diagnosis, treatment, and overall quality of sexual health for everyone.
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We work tirelessly outside of the practice to help advance changes to medical guidelines and medical school curricula. We speak at conferences and meetings to educate physicians and other clinicians about the conditions we treat so they can help their patients. We also advocate with policy and decisions makers to make treatments more accessible.
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We do this because we care - because sexual health matters!
Vaginal Estrogen Black Box Warning - Outreach to the FDA
Want to help us send physical letters to the FDA? Help us in the fight to remove the harmful “black box” warning on vaginal estrogen products!
Physical letters—on paper, in an actual envelope—to the FDA can make an impact and may make a larger splash than email letters. Here’s one of our medical assistants, Grace, talking about why your letter matters and the impact it could have!
You can download the PDF of the template letter linked here, sign it, and send it to the address in the header.
A Citizen's Guide to Menopause Advocacy
This guide empowers individuals and communities to advocate for better awareness, support, and healthcare for those experiencing menopause. It outlines the social, medical, and workplace challenges related to menopause and provides practical tools and strategies to promote informed policy change, break stigma, and ensure inclusive care. Whether you're directly affected or an ally, this guide helps you become a confident and effective voice for change.
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Let's Talk Menopause - Unboxing Menopause
Women are not getting the treatment they need or deserve for the chronic, progressive, and highly prevalent Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM). Symptoms include increased UTIs, urinary incontinence, vaginal dryness, and pain with intercourse.
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Women and medical practitioners are deterred and needlessly scared by an outdated, misleading “boxed warning” that overstates the risk of local vaginal estrogen products.
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Click below to urge the FDA to remove the outdated, misleading “boxed warning” on local vaginal estrogen products.
Tight Lipped
Tight Lipped is a grassroots movement by and for people with chronic vulvovaginal and pelvic pain. Their first campaign advocates for OB/GYN residency programs to make diagnosis and management of common vulvovaginal and pelvic pain conditions a standard part of OB/GYN training.
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Dr. Rubin serves on Tight Lipped’s Medical Advisory Board, which is responsible for providing medical and scientific guidance in support of patient advocacy and community organizing work.​
