Seminar
Abortion related research - where are we at & where are the gaps?
The seminar focuses on current and recent abortion related research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Karolinska Institutet (Swe).
Six researchers and PhD-students are presenting their work from Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, followed by a discussion session on knowledge gaps and future research needs, facilitated by Veronique Filippi.
Programme:
3:30 - 5:00 Presentations
5:00 - 5:30 Discussions
Speakers:
- Amanda Cleeve: "Expanding access to post abortion care in Uganda"
- Tim Powell-Jackson: "Market for medical abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India"
- Rachel Scott: "Comparing reporting of abortions in three nationally representative surveys: Methodological and social-contextual influences"
- Onikepe Owolabi: "Utilising near miss morbidity as in indicator of unsafe abortion- experience from Zambia"
- Jenny Cresswell: "Family planning post-menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: adoption, discontinuation & switching"
- Christopher Smith: "Effect of a mobile phone-based intervention on post-abortion contraception in Cambodia"