Recently, in a significant shift toward accessible, patient-driven health care, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening test. This decision supports a growing trend toward decentralizing health services and empowering people to have more control over their health screenings and tests.

It may also offer revive the debate over at-home sexual assault kits (SAKs), at a time when states and companies selling these kits are battling over their legality.

I am a medical forensic expert committed to ethical, evidence-based, and trauma-informed practices, and I have completed thousands of medical forensic exams involving patients from weeks old to in their 90s. We need thoughtful, evidence-based dialogue on what decentralizing medical forensic care c

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