2026 Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Symposium on Fertility
Join us for the first of our MCH Symposium series on fertility, featuring leaders in economics, demography, epidemiology, and sociology. We’ll explore whether people can have the
children they want when they want them, what forces shape gaps between desired and actual fertility, and how MCH can advance research, policy, and practice.
Our guiding questions include:
- Do men and women have the number of children they want and when they want them?
- What economic, social, health‑related, and structural factors shape the gap between desired and actual fertility?
- What is the role of Maternal and Child Health in advancing research and practice?
This event is co-sponsored with The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
Speakers
- Dr. Claudia Goldin, 2023 Nobel laureate; Samuel W. Morris University Professor
Harvard University
- Dr. Alison Gemmill, Associate Professor of Epidemiology
UCLA School of Public Health
- Dr. Karen Guzzo, Director, Carolina Population Center
UNC Chapel Hill
- Dr. Jennifer Glass, Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Sociology
University of Texas at Austin
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
This event is open to the wider community, both in-person and virtually.