Tuesday 28 April 2020 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Online via Zoom
About
Tuesday 28 April 2020, 7-8.30pm
Online via Zoom
This event was recorded and can be watched online here: https://youtu.be/BnZfKoUhpPw
Curious about how gender disparities, reproductive technology, and access to essential products and services will be impacted by current circumstances? Want to learn more about period poverty, egg freezing, and reproductive risks?
Medical Herstory is leading an interdisciplinary panel of Cambridge University scholars to discuss the current climate and future of gender health inequities. Join our webinar! All are welcome.
Zoom sign-up link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/v5YlcumqpzIimAaYbEhq6t8napoBnTF8Eg
Panel Speakers
Amika George: Founder of the Free Periods campaign which successfully persuaded the UK government to provide free menstrual products in all English schools and colleges from early 2020. Listed as one of TIME magazine's 25 most influential teenagers in the world.
Dr Lucy van de Wiel: Research Associate at the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge. She studies assisted reproductive technologies, specifically egg-freezing and the gender politics of ageing and leads the Wellcome-funded public engagement project: Life in Glass.
Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri: Cambridge University Lecturer in Physiology and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow & Lister Institute Fellow. Her work examines the prevention of pregnancy complications, specifically how genetic and environmental factors interact with one another to influence the placenta.
This event is in collaboration with :
Cambridge Reproduction SRI
Cambridge Students for Global Health