Taking the Population Control Out of Family Planning Measurement (and Measuring Autonomy Instead) – Dr. Leigh Senderowicz
Posted: 9/26/2024 (CSDE Seminar Series)
- When: Friday, Oct 4, 2024 (12:30-1:30PM)
- Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)
- 1-1 meetings: 223 Raitt Hall (sign up here)
We are looking forward to hosting Leigh Senderowicz from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday, Oct. 4 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. In addition, there are opportunities to meet 1-1 with Dr. Senderowicz throughout the day. Sign up here!
This talk will explore the ways the ideology of population control 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. The talk draws from the Contraceptive Autonomy Study, a project designed to explore various dimensions of autonomy and coercion in family planning, and to develop new theories about why and how adverse experiences with contraceptive coercion manifest. This presentation will focus specially on modes of measurement, and the challenges to designing new measures that better assess person-centered and justice-based approaches to contraceptive care.
Dr. Leigh Senderowicz is a critical demographer focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights. Leigh is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a joint appointment in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She completed her doctorate in Global Health at Harvard University and earned her masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins prior to that. Her research focuses on reproductive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and evaluation can promote person-centered care and reproductive freedom.
Date: 10/04/2024