*New* Hybrid Conference: Beyond Birth Rates: Advancing a Pro-Alignment Approach to Low Fertility in North America (08/20/26)

Posted: 7/9/2026 ()

• WHEN: August 20, 2026 (all day)
• WHERE: Hybrid Conference
  • In-Person: Arts Building, Room W-120, McGill University, 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC
  • Online: Zoom
• TO REGISTER: CLICK HERE
• ANY QUESTIONS, contact Jennifer Proudfoot at jennifer.proudfoot@mcgill.ca
• PRELIMINARY AGENDA AVAILABLE HERE

Worried about low and declining birth rates? Is there really a fertility “crisis”?

Learn from experts from across North America how we can face our demographic future with facts, not fear, and develop policies that respect reproductive autonomy, promote gender equality, and support all types of families.

This hybrid event, sponsored by McGill’s Centre on Population Dynamics and the Vanier Institute of the Family, will bring together leading demographers, family scientists, economists, reproductive health researchers, and policy analysts to examine the implications of low fertility, dispel common myths and misperceptions, and propose pro-alignment policies to help people avoid both unintended and unrealized fertility and foster demographic resilience.