Conferences
Honoring Women’s Reproductive Health and Freedom
Our annual spring conference brings clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and reproductive health advocates together to hear about the latest research, interventions and policy prescriptions on a timely issue.
In choosing the topic each year, we aim to anticipate and guide the direction of research related to family planning and reproductive health. Past conferences have highlighted issues as diverse as health care reform, global reproductive health, reproductive justice, and the use of new media in sex education. The latter has given rise to a special issue of the journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy and to research and programming within the Section on sexuality education.
For more information, email sorzalli@babies.bsd.uchicago.edu
Recent Conference
Reproductive Health Disparities among Youth:
Improving Services and Ensuring Access
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Section of Family Planning & Contraceptive Research, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and the Urban Health Initiative at The University of Chicago hosted a one-day conference exploring youth engagement with reproductive health services. The conference examined adolescent reproductive health disparities, innovative approaches to overcoming barriers to care, and new efforts to involve and empower youth in their own care. It was co-sponsored by the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS), the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS), the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and the International House Global Voices Program.
To learn more, download the conference program [PDF].
Keynote Speaker: John Santelli, MD, MPH
Dr. Santelli is the Harriet and Robert H Heilbrunn Professor and Chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, a Senior Fellow at The Guttmacher Institute, and the president for the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.
Panel One: Understanding Adolescent Reproductive Health Disparities
(L to R) Kelli Stidham Hall, PhD MSN NP, Princeton University Office of Population Research; Megan Kavanaugh, DrPH, Guttmacher Institute; Amy Dworsky, PhD, Chapin Hall, University of Chicago; Doriane Miller, MD (Moderator), University of Chicago
Panel Two: Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Barriers to Care
(L to R) Bhupendra Sheoran, MD MPH, Internet Sexuality Information Services; Amy Whitaker, MD MS (Moderator), University of Chicago; Sang Hee Won, MPH, National Institute for Reproductive Health; Kenneth Alexander, MD PhD, University of Chicago
Panel Three: Involving and Empowering Youth
(L to R) Kandace Thomas, MPP (Moderator), Irving Harris Foundation; Melissa Gilliam, MD MPH, University of Chicago; Patrick Jagoda, PhD, University of Chicago; Sarah Horvath, Rebecca Miller and Toussaint Mears-Clarke, Medical Students, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Check back soon for more photos and information from the conference!
PAST CONFERENCES
2011
Reproductive Justice & Health Care Reform: The Impact of Reform on the Reproductive Health of Underserved Women and Youth
Learn more about this conference here.
2010
Fathering Urban Youth: The Role of Fathers in Adolescent Well-Being (PDF)
2009
Virtual Sex Ed: Youth, Race Sex, and New Media (PDF)
This one-day symposium explored novel approaches to educate and engage youth in their sexual and reproductive health using new virtual media such as the Internet (e.g., social networking and peer education sites), health games, and film.
*Read papers resulting from the conference in a special issue of the journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy.
*Learn about resulting research and programming within the Section on sexuality education.
*Watch videos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
2008
Beyond Choice: Exploring Reproductive Justice from Scholarship to Activism (PDF)
Resulting publication:
Contraception Editorial: A Call to Incorporate a Reproductive Justice Agenda into Reproductive Health Clinical Practice and Policy (link)
2007
Exporting Homeland Morality: US Policy and Global Reproductive Health (PDF)
2006
