Women, Gender, and Health

2023 Events

Winter Social – January 26th, 2023 5:30-7pm

WGH faculty, staff, and students gathered to kick of the semester at the New American Café at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

WGH tour of the Schlesinger Library exhibit: “The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America” – Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, 4pm

Schlesinger describes the exhibition as rethinking “… what Roe has meant to American society, culture, and politics. It tells the story of abortion in the United States, from criminalization to constitutionalization and back again, through the eyes of those who created and defended Roe and those who mourned and unmade it, those at the center of politics and those at the margins. Battles over Roe upended party politics, changed medical practice, and divided faith communities. Roe offered lessons about what it meant to treat abortion as a right or to rely on the courts to achieve change. Conflicting visions of justice—for people of color, for women, for life in the womb—shaped what Roe meant”. 6 WGH students, staff, and faculty gathered for a tour of this exhibit with faculty lead Professor Elizabeth Janiak.

International Women’s Day – March 8, 2023 1:00 – 1:50pm EST, Kresge G2

The Women, Gender, & Health Interdisciplinary Concentration hosted its annual International Women’s Day Celebration with 45 attendees for a discussion about the radical history of IWD, and its deep ties to issues of gender and reproductive justice with Professor Nancy Krieger, Chair of WGH, and featured speaker Nashira Baril, the founder of Boston’s Neighborhood Birth Center. Lunch will be provided!

Co-sponsors: GenderSci Lab; Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; Harvard Chan Office for Student Affairs; Harvard Chan Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Harvard Chan Student Organization for Sexual & Reproductive Health; Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Harvard Graduate Student Union HGSU-UAW Local 5118; Harvard Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Health Equity Research Collaborative; Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers; Harvard University Office for Gender Equity; Parents@Harvard Chan; The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; The Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus.

Sexual violence and women’s health: How rape affected the women I study and my life with Professor Karestan Koenen – April 18th, 2023 5:30-6:45pm EST
Sexual violence is common globally and its effects on mental and physical health are well established.  Dr. Koenen led a conversation about how her experience of rape at age 22 altered the course of her life and shapes her research to this day. Discussion included considerations of how lived experiences of trauma can both challenge and motivate an academic career as well as the complexity of disclosure in an academic research context. The discussion was an intimate in-person conversation with 18 attendees. 
The US Supreme Court: Gender, Sexuality, and Health Justice – Pending & Past Decisions – May 4, 2023 1:00 – 1:50Pm (hybrid event)
Sara Rosenbaum, a US health law expert, discussed past and upcoming US Supreme Court decisions and their implications for gender, sexuality, and health justice. The event was delivered in a hybrid format with 40 attendees joining virtually, and 17 attendees joining in person.

Updated: May 5, 2023