Reproductive Realities: Are Families Achieving Their Desired Size?

Name: Reproductive Realities: Are Families Achieving Their Desired Size?
Start: 2026-11-18T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-11-18T17:30:00-05:00
Location: Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium & online

Location

Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium & online
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Time

1:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Event Type

Conferences and Symposia, From Around the School

Event Site

Join us for the first of our MCH Symposium series on fertility with distinguished leaders from interdisciplinary fields including economics, demography, epidemiology, and sociology for a discussion on the current reproductive realities in the United States. 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. This event is available both in person and online.

AGENDA

1:00 – 1:25 PM	Event Check-In
1:25 – 1:30 PM	Opening Remarks
1:30 – 2:15 PM	Keynote: Dr. Claudia Goldin
2:15 – 2:25 PM	Break
2:25 – 3:25 PM	Presentation 1: Dr. Karen Guzzo Presentation 2: Dr. Alison Gemmill
3:25 – 3:55 PM	Coffee and Networking
3:55 – 4:25 PM	Presentation 3: Dr. Jennifer Glass
4:25 – 5:25 PM	Panel Discussion: All presenters Moderator: Bryce Covert
5:25 – 5:30 PM	Closing Remarks

Speaker Information

Claudia Goldin, PhD

Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Alison Gemmill, PhD

Associate Professor of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Karen Guzzo, PhD

Professor of Sociology; Director, Carolina Population Center at UNC Chapel Hill

Jennifer Glass, PhD

Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Sociology and Research Associate in the Population Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin

Moderator

Bryce Covert

Independent journalist

Organizers

Maternal and Child Health Center | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

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