The Bay Centre for Birth Control offers comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care for women in Ontario. Their confidential services include physical examination, counselling, information and referrals. Clinicians and researchers based at the Bay Centre undertake research projects to identify and evaluate best practices and policies in sexual health care and to help evaluate specific sexual health care options for women. They have been involved in clinical trials of medical abortion methods and of new birth control methods such as new hormonal contraceptives.

Currently Dr. Sheila Dunn of the Bay Centre is working with pharmacist Tom Brown to explore the impact of recent changes to federal regulations which now allow emergency contraception (the "morning after pill") to be distributed without a prescription from behind the pharmacy counter. One year after these regulatory changes, the study will evaluate how access to the emergency contraceptive pill has been affected with a particular focus on pharmacy-related factors. This work builds on the team's earlier Emergency Contraception Pilot Project completed in 2003.