Archived Lectures:


"Worker Health and Safety in the Adult Film Industry"
Peter R. Kerndt, MD, MPH
Director, Sexually Transmitted Disease Program
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
May 21, 2008
To view presentation, click here

"Abortion vs. Post-abortion Care in Africa:  Challenges and Opportunities"
Dr. Solomon Orero, Consulting Obstetrician/Gynecologist
Nairobi, Kenya
May 8, 2008
To view presentation, click here

"Being Delivered of Giving Birth? Alternate Global Child Practices"
Anne Verwall, RN, CLE
Birth Consultant, Doula, Educator
March 5, 2008

"Misconceptions about AIDS in Africa: Ours and Theirs"
Susan Cotts Watkins
Visiting Research Scientist, CCPR, UCLA
Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
January 29, 2008
To view presentation, click here

"The New Partial Birth Abortion Law and Abortion Rights in the United States: Where do we stand?"
Regina Clemente, Public Affairs Manager
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
June 7, 2007

"Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS"
Helen Epstein
Author of the new book The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS (Farrar, Straus & Giroux May 2007.) She is also a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and other publications. June 6, 2007
To view presentation, click here

"Microbicides: A New Hope for HIV/STIs. Global and Local Perspectives"
Pamina Gorbach, M.H.S., Dr.P.H.
Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Epidemiology
UCLA School of Public Health
June 4, 2007
To view presentation, click here

"Why Have Human Rights Organizations Taken On Reproductive Health?"
LaShawn R. Jefferson, Executive Director, Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
Dan Esparza, Co-Chair Steering Committee, Women's Rights Program, Amnesty International USA
March 31, 2007

"Trapped in the Shadows: Sex Trafficking and Women's Health"
Dr. K. Wendy Freed, M.D.
Consulting psychiatrist for Miller Children's Hospital Abuse and Violence Intervention Center in Long Beach, CA

March 13, 2007
To view presentation, click here

"Challenges of Reproductive Health in Complex Emergencies"
Stephen Tomlin, Vice President of Program Policy & Planning,
International Medical Corps
March 6, 2007
To view presentation, click here

"Access to Second Trimester Abortion: A Public Health Perspective"
Tracy Weitz, PhD, MPA
Director, Advancing Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)
Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy, University of California, San Francisco
January 24, 2007
To view presentation, click here

"Impact of a Web-Based Intervention on Reproductive Health
Services in Rural China"

Virginia Li, PhD, MPH
Professor, UCLA School of Public Health,
Department of Community Health Sciences
November 14, 2006
To view presentation, click here

"Entertainment Broadcasting and Reproductive Health in Developing Countries: The Power of Role Models"
William N. Ryerson
Founder and President - Population Media Center
September 26, 2006
To view presentation, click here

"Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues for Underserved Women"
Lourdes Rivera, JD
Managing Attorney
National Health Law Program
May 25, 2006
To view presentation, click here

"What Happens When Women's Preventive Care is Undervalued? Lessons from Romania"
Adriana Baban, PhD
Professor, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
May 10, 2006
To view presentation, click here
Background reading - Report on Cervical Screening

"Reproductive Health Issues in Asia and the Pacific: Old Challenges, New Strategies"
Sona Sethi, MD, MPH
Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
April 28, 2006
To view presentation, click here

RH Disparities Panel Presentation
April 10, 2006

"Psychosocial Stress and Persistent Racial Disparities in Adverse Birth Outcomes"
Tyan Parker Dominguez, PhD, MPH, MSW
School of Social Work, University of Southern California
To view presentation, click here

"Reproductive Health Disparities: A Lifespan Approach"
Kimberly D. Gregory MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
David Geffen School of Medicine & UCLA School of Public Health
To view presentation, click here

"Conceptual Framework: Health Disparities in African-American Women"
Antronette (Toni) Yancey, MD, MPH
Associate Professor/Co-Director, UCLA School of Public Health and Center to Eliminate Health Disparities
To view presentation, click here

"An Update on HIV in Mexico"
Dr. Jorge Savedra, Head of Mexico's HIV/AIDS Program
February 8, 2006

"Women's Health, Emergency Contraception and the FDA"
Susan Wood, Ph.D. (Reproductive Health Technologies Project)
February 7, 2006
To view presentation, click here

"Improving Women's Reproductive Health Through Expanding Access to Key Health Technologies"
Jackie Sherris (PATH)
Presented at the Bixby Lectures and Networking Event
November 18, 2005
To view presentation, click here

"The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children: Making Reproductive Health a Priority for Refugee and Displaced Women"
Carolyn Makinson, Executive Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
October 18, 2005
To view presentation, click here

"Safer Sex for Sex Workers Part 2: Public Health Issues in
the Adult Film Industry"

Peter R. Kerndt, MD, MPH
Director, STD Program, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
May 23, 2005
To view presentation, click here

"Reproductive Health in HIV Infected Women"
Helene Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D
Assistant Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
March 8, 2005
To view presentation, click here

"Safer Sex for Sex Workers"
Sharon Mitchell, Ph.D.
Founder, Adult Industry Health Care Foundation (AIM-Med)
February 10, 2005

"Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges"
Lisa Bohmer
Former HIV/AIDS Director, UNICEF/Ethiopia
November 23, 2004
To view presentation, click here

"Planned Parenthood: Advancing the Reproductive Rights Agenda"
Mary-Jane Waglé
President/CEO, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
October 19, 2004

"The Abortion Pill, the Morning After Pill and Microbicides: the Politics of New Reproductive Technologies"
Francine Coeytaux, MPH
Women's Health Consultnat, Founder, Pacific Institute for Women's Health
May 13, 2004

"Harnessing the Power of Entertainment to Improve Reproductive Health Globally"
Sonny Fox
Senior Vice President, Population Communications International (PCI) (http://www.population.org/index.shtml)
March 10, 2004
To view presentation, click here

"The Impact of President Bush's Policies on Women's Reproductive Health: The Case of UNFPA"
Sarah P. Burns
Director of Development and External Affairs - UCLA Institute for the Environment
and Jane Roberts
Co-Founder, UNFPA
November 13, 2003
To view Sarah Burns' presentation, click here
To view Jane Roberts' presentation, click here

"Reproductive Health of Refugees: Progress and Challenges"
Dr. Henia Dakkak
International Medical Corps, Director of International Relief and Development Programs
November 6, 2003
To view the presentation, click here

"Barriers to Reproductive Health in Post-Communist Romania"
Dr. Adriana Baban
Visiting Professor, Romania
May 28, 2003
To view presentation, click here

"Sex Work in Russia: Qualitative Studies of Its Ecology, Social Organization, and Impact on STD Epidemiology"
Dr. Sevgi Aral
Associate Director for Science, Division of STD Prevention, CDC
May 13, 2003
View Papers:
The Social Organization of Commercial Sex Work in Moscow, Russia
The Ecology of Sex Work and Drug Use in Saratov Oblast, Russia
(Co-sponsored with the School of Public Health and the Department of Epidemiology)

"Organizing for Sexual and Reproductive Rights: The Latin American Consortium for Emergency Contraception"
Ms. Angeles Cabria
Senior Program Officer, Pacific Institute for Women's Health
May 9, 2003
To view presentation, click here.

"Post-Abortion Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Developments"
Dr. Solomon Orero
Consultant Obstetrician/Gynecologist (Aga Khan and Nairobi Hospitals, Kenya)
March 12, 2003
To view presentation, click here.

"Achieving Reproductive Rights in Brazil"
Ms. Magaly Marquez
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
February 12, 2003
To view presentation, click here.

"HIV/AIDS and Women in Nepal"
Ms. Pradeepta Upadhyay
South Asian Network
December 6, 2002
To view presentation using Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here.

"New Approaches to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya"
Dr. Chandice Covington
UCLA School of Nursing
October 24, 2002
To view presentation, click here.

"The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Kenya"
Dr. Mohammed S. Abdullah
Kenyan National AIDS Committee
October 24, 2002
To view presentation, click here.

back to top