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Invest in the Future of

Sexual and Reproductive Health

UCLA Blue & Gold Challenge | October 26–31, 2026

Dear UCLA Bixby Alumni, Stakeholders, and Community,

Many of us remember what it was like to be graduate students interested in a career in sexual and reproductive health (SRH), piecing together funding, seeking meaningful research experience, finding mentors, and looking for opportunities to put our education into practice. We also remember the people who helped open doors along the way.

For many in our community, these challenges haven't disappeared. Faculty, researchers, and practitioners continue to navigate limited resources and an increasingly complex environment for SRH research, policy, and practice.

At the UCLA Bixby Center, we're working to address these challenges together by creating opportunities for students, supporting innovative faculty research, connecting experts and partners to share knowledge, and building partnerships that improve SRH in communities locally and globally.

This week (Oct. 26-31), we're joining Bruins across UCLA for the 15th annual Blue & Gold Challenge fundraising effort.

We invite you to be part of what's next. Whether you give $5, $50, or $5,000, your support sends a powerful message to our students, faculty, and partners: their work matters, and there's a community behind them.

“GRO represents a critical investment in actionable, community-centered research. By supporting investigation into how Asian immigrant women navigate, and are often excluded from, US family leave policies, we are not just advancing academic scholarship, we are shining a light on structural inequities in workplaces and communities.” 
- Dr. May Sudhinaraset, GRO Faculty Mentor & Bixby Faculty Affiliate

Shape What's Next

Whether you're reflecting on the opportunities that shaped your career or navigating today's challenges in research, education, and practice, you know how much it matters to have a community behind you.

With additional support, Bixby can expand student training and mentorship, provide seed funding for innovative research, and strengthen the networks and collaborations that help our community move important work forward.

A gift of any size is a vote of confidence in the students, faculty, researchers, practitioners and partners critical to driving progress in SRH today and tomorrow.

Support Bixby by sharing our Blue & Gold Challenge with your networks.