Uta Landy, PhD, has worked in the field of family planning since 1970 as an international consultant, researcher, counselor, administrator, writer, and advocate. In 1999, she founded the landmark Ryan Residency Training Program, which supported more than 100 ob-gyn residency programs to integrate family planning training under her leadership. In 1999 she also became the National Director of the Fellowship in Family Planning, which was founded at UCSF by Dr. Philip Darney. While at UCSF she led a many-year, collaborative reproductive health curriculum reform project in Vietnam, which transformed medical education in evidence-based medicine and family planning training.
Dr. Landy has served as Executive Director of the National Abortion Federation, President of the Board for Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, President of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, Co-Chair of the Planned Parenthood Coalition of Abortion Providers (CAPS), Chair of the Abortion Task Force of the American Public Health Association, and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Dr. Landy has co-authored the publication of landmark surveys concerning the delivery of abortion services and elective abortion training in US ob-gyn Residency Programs. She edited the global textbook Advancing Women’s Health through Medical Education: A Systems Approach in Family Planning in Abortion, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. In 2022 she received the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for her work to transform medical education. Her work leading the national fellowship culminated in the Fellowship in Complex Family Planning becoming accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the specialty becoming an official subspecialty of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.