GPHW2023: Women’s Education and Maternal Health, Focusing on Fertility

Theme: Empowering Our Communities – Protecting Minorities & the Most Vulnerable

Date and Time: 05 April 2023 | 17:00 – 19:00 (CEST)

Event Description: In this seminar event, I will be looking to investigate the effects of an increase in overall women’s education, on the total fertility rate of women around the world. According to Roser (2019), improving women’s education improves women’s rights and opportunities, but it also promotes healthier societies by advancing the demographic shift and reducing birth rates to curb population growth. So to examine how improving the overall standing of women’s education could affect fertility rates, I will specifically look at the correlation between girls’ primary school completion, contraceptive use, and the average number of babies born to women. It’s important to note that birth rate and fertility rate are two different rates that often go hand in hand. “The birth rate is the annual number of births per 1,000 of the population, and the total fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would have assuming that current age-specific birth rates remain constant, throughout her childbearing years” (Smoak, 2019). Participants will be Global Health King’s College, Global Mental Health (Msc) King’s College London and LSHTM, MPH students at LSHTM and Imperial, the above post-graduate students and faculties have shown interest in the abstract shared of this paper and are willing to attend the seminar event during GPHW and virtually and in person, it will be open to anyone interested in attending.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: In-person and Virtual

Language(s): English

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How to Attend In-person: King’s College London, Guy’s Campus

How to Attend Virtually: Microsoft Teams

Registration: N/A