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Dana Singiser
Dana Singiser, co-founder of CAI, is a partner at Keefe Singiser Partners. She is a seasoned advocate and health care policy expert with over 25 years of policy, political, campaign and legal experience. Prior to Keefe Singiser Partners, Dana served as senior vice president for Policy, Campaigns, and Advocacy at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. As a senior member of the staff for over seven years, she was a strategic leader of the organization’s response to the unprecedented attacks on reproductive health care and of the organization’s efforts to protect and expand women’s health care. She worked extensively with Cabinet members, Senators, members of Congress, senior federal officials and coalition partners, and appeared frequently in the media.
Dana also served in the Obama White House, where she worked as the special assistant to the president and a key member of the team who helped pass the Affordable Care Act. Dana held leadership positions on President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. She also served as staff director for the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee under the chairmanship of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Democratic leaders Harry Reid and Tom Daschle.
Contraceptive Affordability Campaign:
Dana Singiser is a top expert on contraceptive affordability, working as a key member of the Obama administration team that helped enact no-cost insurance coverage for contraception. Most recently, she has spearheaded a campaign to expand affordability, including no cost insurance coverage, for over-the-counter contraception.
She is a co-author of the groundbreaking report, Expanding Contraceptive Access for Nearly 60 Million Women, which, for the first time, quantified the number of people that would benefit from over-the-counter contraceptive coverage.
Dana is featured in a popular short explainer video that reviews the four paths to affordability for over-the-counter contraception.
Dana Singiser in the news:
"People have a new choice, a new option to access the oral contraceptive pill without a prescription," said Dana Singiser, co-founder of Contraceptive Access Initiative, an nonprofit advocacy group. — USA Today, March 4, 2024
“This is a historic breakthrough,” said Dana Singiser, co-founder of the nonprofit Contraceptive Access Initiative, which supported the Food and Drug Administration’s over-the-counter approval of the pill last year. “Without a prescription this becomes a game changer for people who can’t afford to go to doctor’s visits or hourly workers who need to take time off to schedule appointments.” — The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2024
Other recent stories quoting Dana Singiser:
“First OTC Birth Control Fuels Push for Federal Coverage Rule,” Bloomberg Law, March 6, 2024
“America's first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available soon,” USA Today, Published March 4, 2024/Updated March 5, 2024
“Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill to Be Available Within Weeks on Retail Shelves,” Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2024
“Republicans are taking aim on contraception — and they’d rather you didn’t know,” The Independent, Feb. 12, 2024
“A roadmap for making over-the-counter birth control affordable,” STAT, August 23, 2023