Home > Events/Training > Speakers Series: Islam, Gender, and Reproductive Health Speakers Series: Islam, Gender, and Reproductive Health—Part III Friday, November 5, 2004, Washington, DC 9:00 – 10:30 am Woodrow Wilson Center 6th Floor Board Room, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC Featured speakers: Ellen Gruenbaum Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Fresno Marcia C. Inhorn Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Professor (Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, Program in Women’s Studies, and Department of Anthropology), University of Michigan The conference series provides an in-depth look at the intersection of reproductive health and gender issues in the Islamic world, addressing the range of religious adherence to Islam and the impact of such diverse views on reproductive health policy and programming. Dr. Gruenbaum spent six months in Sudan in 2004. She will discuss regional community development projects, how such initiatives make use of religion, and changing opinions and attitudes toward reproductive health and sexuality. Dr. Inhorn will focus on fertility and infertility amongst women and men, and access to reproductive health technologies such as in-vitro fertilization in Egypt and Lebanon. This series is sponsored by The Middle East Program and Environmental Change and Security Project at The Woodrow Wilson International Center, and is supported by USAID's Office of Population and Reproductive Health and the Interagency Gender Working Group. Seating is limited. Please RSVP to mep@wwic.si.edu.