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International Conference on Women and Health 2027

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Our Bodies Ourselves and the Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University are proud to announce we will be hosting an International Conference on Women and Health in Boston, Massachusetts, over International Women’s Day weekend, March 6, 7, and 8, 2027.

The conference theme, EQUITY AND ACCESS, honors the spirit of the historic Conference on Women and Health in 1975, which also met in Boston. Our Bodies Ourselves and several partners organized that conference to address numerous issues in women’s health from a feminist perspective. A global women’s health movement coalesced soon afterwards.

The 2027 International Conference on Women and Health will bring together grassroots activists and experts, domestic and international speakers and attendees, to discuss current knowledge, share experiences, address the challenges of equity and access,  and propose solutions to help guide the movement for the next 50 years.

Please save the date and visit this webpage for regular updates with additional information, including a registration link, as it becomes available.

Speakers will include:

  • Byllye Avery, founder of Black Women’s Health Imperative (U.S.)
  • Codou Bop, Women & Law Research Group (Senegal)
  • Katsi Cook, Onkwehonweh traditional midwife (Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, U.S.-Canadian border)
  • Mosoka Fallah, Africa Centres for Disease Control & Prevention (Liberia & Ethopia)
  • Arline Geronimus, author of Weathering, The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (U.S.)
  • Natalia Kanem, former Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (Panama)
  • Representatives from Taller Salud (Puerto Rico, U.S.)

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