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Fertility Goals Series Webinar 4: The New Wave of SRH Indicators: Where Do Fertility Goals Fit In?

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Thu, February 12, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Zoom

The Ohio Population Consortium presents this 4th webinar in a series focusing on fertility goals.

There has been a recent surge of efforts to develop new indicators of sexual and reproductive health, indicators intended to supplant the constructs “unmet need for contraception” and “demand satisfied” that have served as featured indicators during the past two decades. 

The proposed indicators reflect an effort to achieve a more woman-centered approach to both SRH science and policy. Fertility goals were essential ingredients of the past indicators. Where do they fit in now? Have they been sidelined (deliberately or unintentionally)? If so, is this defensible and desirable, from both a scientific and policy perspective? 

The aim of this webinar is to have an energetic exchange about these (and related) questions.

Presenters:

John Casterline, Institute for Population Research, The Ohio State University

Nurudeen Alhassan, African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), Lilongwe, Malawi

Jamaica Corker, External Research Affiliate, Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, University of Washington

Leigh Senderowicz, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison