“Women Manufacture Children, and If You Can’t, You Are Just a Man”: Global Perspectives on Gender and Reproductive Health

Rutgers Global Health Institute is hosting a guest faculty seminar at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, as part of its Viewpoints in Global Health Research: Guest Faculty Seminar Series.

This online seminar will be presented by:

Michelle Hindin
Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

“Women Manufacture Children, and If You Can’t, You Are Just a Man”: Global Perspectives on Gender and Reproductive Health
This seminar will describe the population-level knowledge to date on infertility and review why infertility remains relatively unexplored in global public health research.

The seminar title includes a quotation from the novel Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (2017, Alfred A. Knopf).

About the Presenter
Michelle J. Hindin is a researcher in global women’s and adolescents’ health. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was a tenured professor. She is the former director of the reproductive health program at the Population Council, an international non-governmental organization that conducts research in biomedicine, social science, and public health and helps build research capacities in developing countries. She was a scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Department of Reproductive Health and Research, where she led their portfolio on adolescent sexual and reproductive health research.

Hindin has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles; mentored more than 25 Ph.D. students; and helped develop global indicators for country-level monitoring of women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health at WHO. She received a Ph.D. degree in sociology from Johns Hopkins University and an M.H.S. degree from the Department of Population Dynamics at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Online via Zoom

Free and open to the public. For more information, email info@globalhealth.rutgers.edu. For more events, visit the seminar series page on the Rutgers Global Health Institute website or explore the institute’s full online calendar.