Taking the Population Control out of Reproductive Health Measurement

Join in person or via Zoom us for a Global Health Politics Workshop with Leigh Senderowicz, Assistant Professor, Departments of Gender & Women's Studies and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Senderowicz is a critical demographer and global public health scholar, focusing on reproductive wellbeing.

This talk will explore the ways that antinatalist ideology permeates the design and quantitative evaluation of contemporary family planning projects, 30 years after the International Conference on Population and Development called for an end to population control. Understanding quantification as a politicized form of knowledge production in global health, this presentation will discuss on the challenges to designing new measures that better assess person-centered and justice-based approaches to contraceptive care.

When 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm on 9 October 2025
Building Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 67 Bay State Road
Contact Email pardee@bu.edu
Contact Organization Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Fees free
Open To public
Speakers Leigh Senderowicz