Panel moderator Nancy Krieger is a social epidemiologist and an associate professor in the Department of Society, Human
Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also co-director of the school's interdisciplinary concentration
in women, gender, and health.
Krieger announces that the conference includes individuals from diverse disciplines and explores how they each
conceptualize reproductive health in the 21st century. "At issue. . . are priorities regarding policies, resources, research, rights,
and needs, which together tangibly translate to the wherewithal for women and girls, men and boys, this generation and the next, to live
fully human lives," says Krieger.
Krieger states that the conference explores issues related to actual people governed by laws and policies which affect
their ability to enjoy their sexual relationships and to reproduce with or without reproductive technologies. She invites the audience
to consider the "intricate links between the social and the biological, for I suspect that it will be through articulating these
connections that we can best contribute our varied skills to the myriad groups and disciplines seeking to improve reproductive health in
the 21st century."
Krieger proceeds to introduce each of the panelists.
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