Senderowicz publishes in Population Studies

Leigh Senderowicz ScD, MPH, assistant professor in the Division of Reproductive and Population Health, recently published a new article in Population Studies. Senderowicz co-authored the article with Rishita Nandagiri, PhD.

In “Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning,” Senderowicz and Nandagiri reflects on the impact the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action had on global family programs and some of its limitations. Their study specifically analyzed the concern for reproductive rights and autonomy, fertility and population dynamics, and opposition to biomedical contraception and abortion.

“The ICPD+30 moment allows us to reconsider the compromises made at Cairo on issues of poverty, environmental protection, racism, and coloniality and to create new ways of addressing these challenges without implicitly blaming poor women’s own bodies and their fertility. As we confront multiple interlocking crises, it is time to consider their structural root causes and how these structures may be radically transformed.”

Read the full article here.

**by Ob-Gyn Communications Intern Paige Stevenson