Tina Raine-Bennett, MD, MPH
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
2000 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 627-2740 (phone)
tina.r.raine-bennett@kp.org
Tina Raine-Bennett, MD, MPH, is a senior research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research and the research director of the Women's Health Research Institute. She received her medical training at the University of California, San Diego and post-graduate residency training and MPH at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she also completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship. She is a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist with special interest in adolescent risk behaviors and reproductive health. Prior to coming to the Division of Research, Dr. Raine-Bennett was a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She was based at San Francisco General Hospital where she was also the medical director of the New Generation Health Center, a UCSF affiliate site that seeks to help teens and young women avoid unintended pregnancy. Dr. Raine-Bennett's research has focused on elucidating factors that influence contraceptive choice and continuation and she is principal investigator on NIH grants to assess hormonal contraceptive use in high-risk women and develop interventions to improve contraceptive use. Her past and current research on emergency contraception has focused on the safety of making emergency contraception more accessible and she recently completed an industry trial to make emergency contraception available to teens without a prescription. She served on the editorial board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is currently a reviewer for the journal. She is an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and also serves on national committees for the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the National Medical Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In her position as research director of the Women's Health Research Institute, Dr. Raine-Bennett focuses on expanding research on women's health within the Division and translating women's health research into clinical practice within the Ob/Gyn departments in Northern California. She also promotes the involvement of clinicians in research designed to improve the health outcomes and health care experiences of women at Kaiser Permanente and women in general.
Current Position(s):
- Research Scientist III, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
- Staff Physician, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, California
- Volunteer Clinical Professor of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF
Primary Research Interests:
- Interventions to reduce adolescent and unintended pregnancy
- Disparities in reproductive health
- Primary prevention in women's health
- Comparative effectiveness of procedures to treat gynecologic problems