About Us

Bedsider Providers gives clinicians and health care teams free, up-to-date information, tools, and resources for delivering high-quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care. We translate what’s happening in clinical guidance, research, policy, and social media into practical insights you can use with patients, so you can build trust, stay current, and spend your time on care.

Everything on Bedsider Providers is free to read, with no membership required. That includes articles on birth control, abortion, and gynecologic and sexual health; a monthly Research Roundup; clinical scenarios; and mis/disinformation guides with talking points for the social media trends your patients are seeing. Our continuing education webinars, such as Be IUD Confident, are free to watch, with optional CE credit available for purchase.

Bedsider Providers is the clinician companion to Bedsider, a birth control and reproductive health resource for people ages 18 to 29. Both are programs of Power to Decide, a national nonprofit that works to advance sexual and reproductive well-being for all by providing trusted information, expanding access to quality services, and catalyzing culture change.

Editorial Process

Bedsider Providers content is developed and maintained according to established standards for medical content creation and review, guided by accuracy, currency, and clinical relevance. Final responsibility for all content rests with Power to Decide.

Clinical content is written or reviewed by practicing clinicians and subject matter experts. It receives final medical review from Joely Pritzker, MS, FNP-C, Power to Decide’s Senior Director of Health Care and a contributing author to the 22nd edition of Contraceptive Technology. Clinical scenarios and patient-facing materials are co-created directly with clinicians in primary care, safety net, and Title X settings to ensure guidance reflects real-world care contexts. All content is reviewed for consistency with current evidence, and updated on a defined schedule as clinical guidance evolves.

Bedsider Providers content is developed independently of any commercial partnerships or sponsorships. Where content is developed in partnership with or supported by external organizations, those relationships are disclosed and the content is held to the same editorial standards as original Bedsider Providers content.

Meet the team

Joely Pritzker, MS, FNP-C

Joely Pritzker is Power to Decide’s Senior Director of Health Care. Joely is a Family Nurse Practitioner with extensive clinical experience in sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Her journey in health care began as a HealthCorps member at an adolescent and young adult clinic and she has since provided comprehensive SRH care at Planned Parenthood and in community health centers. In addition to her clinical work, Joely has designed and led trainings on client-centered counseling, exploring reproductive desires, contraception, and patient self-advocacy. She is a contributing author to the 22nd edition of Contraceptive Technology. Joely earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco.

Tara Mancini, MA

Tara Mancini is the Director of Public Policy at Power to Decide. She helps to advance Power to Decide’s policy priorities through her advocacy work, both with grassroots and policy makers. In 2017, she helped launch Power to Decide’s state policy project which focuses on policies that improve information about and access to contraception. Tara previously worked at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, providing research assistance on Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act. Tara earned a BA in Sociology and BA in Justice Studies from Rhode Island College and her MA in Sociology from American University.

Sarah Axelson, DrPH, MSW

Sarah Axelson is the Senior Director, Innovation, Training, and TA at Power to Decide. With nearly 20 years of experience in the innovation space, Sarah leads the integration of human-centered design and organizational strategy. Sarah is passionate about the intersection of adolescent sexual health and the science of learning, and uses those skills to ensure that communities are meaningfully engaged in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of Power to Decide’s portfolio of work. Sarah holds a doctorate in Public Health from The George Washington University, with a specialization in Prevention and Community Health, and a Master’s Degree in Social Work and a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Amy Ragsdale

Amy Ragsdale is the Senior Director of Business Development at Power to Decide. Amy leads initiatives and partnerships that help fund Power to Decide’s reach and impact through new revenue streams. In her past role as Director at Spring Impact, Amy partnered with over a hundred nonprofits to create and scale initiatives for sustainable, systems-level impact – including helping Planned Parenthood Federation of America develop digital products that improve access to abortion and patient navigation. Amy holds a BA in Neuroscience from Pomona College and was a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.