Expert Panel on Fertility, Reproductive Health and Development

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Tuesday, 07 December 2010 - 10:00am

Overview

Fertility, reproductive health and development are core elements of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development as well as the Millennium Development Goals. In view of the forty-fourth Commission on Population and Development that will take place on 11-15 April 2011 and focus on fertility, reproductive health and development, the Population Division has organized an expert panel to examine emerging issues in these areas, particularly the development impact of fertility decline, improvements in access to family planning and other reproductive health services, and reductions of inequities in reproductive health.

Documents

Organization of work

07 December 2010

10AM -1PM

Ms. Hania Zlotnik, Director, 51�Թ� Population Division. Welcome and Introduction.

Presentations

Ms. Ann Blanc, Director, Maternal Health Task Force, EndgenderHealth. The contribution of family planning to the reduction of maternal deaths.
Ms. Rekha Mehra, Director, Economic Development, International Center for Research on Women. Targeting poverty and gender inequality to improve maternal health.

Discussion

Presentations

Mr. T. Paul Schultz, Professor, Department of Economics, Yale University. Long Term Effects of a Social Experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh: 1974 – 1996.
Mr. David Canning, Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University. The Macroeconomic Consequences of Family Planning.

Discussion

Population Division. Closing Remarks.

Panelists

Ms. Ann Blanc, Director, Maternal Health Task Force, EndgenderHealth. The contribution of family planning to the reduction of maternal deaths
Ms. Rekha Mehra, Director, Economic Development, International Center for Research on Women. Targeting poverty and gender inequality to improve maternal health
Mr. T. Paul Schultz, Professor, Department of Economics, Yale University. Long term effects of a social experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh: 1974 – 1996
Mr. David Canning, Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University. The macroeconomic consequences of family planning

tags:

2010

Expert Group Meeting

Fertility

Sexual and reproductive health

Categories:

Expert group

Fertility

Family Planning

Commission on Population and Development, forty-third session (2010)

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Monday, 12 April 2010 - 10:00am to Friday, 16 April 2010 - 6:00pm

Health, morbidity, mortality and development

Members of the Commission

Bureau members

Ambassador Daniel Carmon (Israel) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Chair)
Ms. Agnieszka Klausa (Poland) - Eastern-European Group (Vice-Chair)
Mr. Shoji Miyagawa (Japan) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)
Mr. Lizwi Eric Nkombela (South Africa) - African Group (Vice-Chair)
Mr. Eduardo L. G. Rios-Neto (Brazil) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Vice-Chair)

Population Division - 2010