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Lunch Hour Lecture | Future Families: how climate change concerns are shaping reproductive choices
07 November 2024, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
In the lead-up to COP29, please join Hope Dillarstone and Elaine Flores for an insightful lecture exploring the complex nexus between climate change, mental health, and reproductive decision-making.
This event is free.
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About the lecture:
Over the last decade, significant media attention has been paid to a growing number of individuals reconsidering their reproductive decisions in light of their concerns about climate change. While many people are choosing to limit or forgo childbearing, a smaller number of others are feeling compelled to have more children.
In the lead-up to COP29, please join Hope Dillarstone and Elaine Flores for an insightful lecture exploring the complex nexus between climate change, mental health, and reproductive decision-making. They will refer to their recent systematic review exploring the nuanced ways climate change is shaping reproductive decisions, and the broader implications of this for future research and policymaking.
About the Speakers
Hope Dillarstone
Sustainability Engagement and Project Officer at Wellcome Trust
Hope Dillarstone is a Sustainability Engagement and Project Officer at the Wellcome Trust, having previously worked in national and international research teams at the University of Gloucestershire, ORB International and International Needs Canada. She has a first-class MSc degree in Global Health and Development from the UCL Institute for Global Health, and her research on climate change and reproductive decision-making has been published and featured in The Guardian, The Independent, and Times Radio.
Elaine Flores [MD, PhD, MSc]
Research Fellow in Planetary Health at Center on Climate Change and Planetary Health and the Center for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine