The Guttmacher Institute will participate at the 2022 International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Pattaya City, Thailand, November 14–17.

Come see our new research and join us in critical conversations about advancing family planning research, advocacy and policy. If you’re joining virtually, we hope you will follow along!

Guttmacher participation at ICFP: 

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Monday, November 14 | 7:30am – 12:30pm

Pre-conference workshop: Shifting Power and Advancing Equity in Global Health

Session: The Way Forward: Priorities and Evolving Practices for Shifting Power in Family Planning

Co-chair: Ann M. Moore, Guttmacher Institute

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Tuesday, November 15 | 7:00am – 8:25am

Side event: Tracking What Counts: Trajectories and Impacts of Donor Funding for Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Moderator: Yvonne Bogaarts, Advocacy Manager, Rutgers WPF

Panelists:

Raffaela Dattler, International Planned Parenthood Federation, on behalf of Countdown 2030 Europe

Elizabeth Sully, Guttmacher Institute

Lisa Goerlitz, Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW)

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Tuesday, November 15 | 10:15am – 11:35am

Session: Abortion Stigma, Support and Self-Efficacy

Presentation: Unsafe and Stigmatized: The Relationship Between Abortion Safety and Individual-Level Abortion Stigma Among Women Who Have Had Abortions in Ethiopia and Uganda

Presenter: Maggie Giorgio, Guttmacher Institute

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Tuesday, November 15 | 1:25pm – 2:25pm

Roundtable lunch: The End of the Constitutional Right to Abortion in the US: Potential Global Impacts and How to Mitigate Them

Moderator: Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute 

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Tuesday, November 15 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Side event hosted by Guttmacher Institute: Evidence in Action: Making the Case for Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health

Moderator & speakers:

Dr. Herminia Palacio, Guttmacher Institute

Siva Thanenthiran, Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW)

Anna Popinchalk, Guttmacher Institute

Suchitra Dalvie, Asia Safe Abortion Partnership

Kelly Bowden, Action Canada

Priya Karna, World Health Organization (WHO)

Naa Dodoo, African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)

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Wednesday, November 16 | 11:50am – 1:10pm

Session: Measurement of Unmet Need and Preferences

Presentation: Estimating Alignment Between Women’s Desires to Avoid Pregnancy and Their Experiences

Presenter: Jonathan Bearak, Guttmacher Institute

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Wednesday, November 16 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm

Session: Poster Session 6: Making the Investment Case: the Family Planning Investment Impact Calculator

Presenter: Elizabeth Sully, Guttmacher Institute

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Wednesday, November 16 | 4:15pm – 5:35pm

Session: Opportunities and Challenges in Generating and Using Evidence on Broad Social and Economic Impacts of Family Planning

Moderator:

Anna Popinchalk, Guttmacher Institute

Presenters:

Michelle O’Brien, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Naa Dodoo, African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)

Zohra Lassi, University of Adelaide

Nadia Diamond-Smith, University of California, San Francisco

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Wednesday, November 16 | 4:15pm – 5:35pm

Session: Measuring Abortion in a Changing World: Innovations and Adaptations to Existing Abortion Measurement Methods

Moderator: Harriet Birungi, Population Council

Presenters:

Boniface Ushie, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

     Estimating the incidence of induced abortion in humanitarian settings

Ann M. Moore, Guttmacher Institute

     Using Medication Abortion Sales to Supplement Data Collected through the AICM

Maggie Giorgio, Guttmacher Institute

     Calculating the Multiplier Using a Respondent-Driven Sample of Women Who Have Had Abortions

Onikepe Owolabi, IntraHealth International

     Using the Health Facility Survey to Better Measure a Health System's Capacity to Provide Quality Postabortion Care

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Wednesday, November 16 | 8:30pm – 8:45pm

ICFP Live Program: The Pulse with Dr. T: The Right to Bodily Autonomy

Host and speakers:

Dr. Herminia Palacio, Guttmacher Institute

Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Elizabeth Schlacter, Interim Director of Global Advocacy and U.S. Representative (IPPF)

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Thursday, November 17 | 11:50am – 01:10pm

Session: Abortion

Presentation: Talking About Abortion: When, Why, and to Whom Women Disclose Their Abortions and its Implications for Using Social Network-Based Measures to Estimate Abortion in Ethiopia and Uganda

Presenter: Elizabeth Sully, Guttmacher Institute