Reproductive justice when abortion rights are under threat

The expert panel will discuss the topic in relation to their areas of expertise, spanning geographies including India, Australia, Argentina and areas of expertise including health, politics, and policy relating to abortion, contraception, and reproductive rights.

Event speakers:

• Dr Nayla Luz Vacarezza
• Dr Rishita Nandagiri
• Dr Shelly Makleff

Chair:

• Professor Cicely Marston, Professor of Public Health, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, and Official Fellow, Kellogg College

Dr Nayla Luz Vacarezza , Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, Visiting Bye- Fellow for Scholars from the Global South , National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina, Associate Researcher.

Nayla’s research focuses on gender, feminist politics and reproductive justice in Latin America, with particular attention to cultural and affective dimensions of social movements. Her recent work explores how abortion activism deploys creative strategies—including visual culture, performance, and storytelling—to challenge stigma and reimagine reproductive politics.

Dr Rishita Nandagiri, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, Visiting Fellow, Dept. Intl Development, LSE

Rishita’s interdisciplinary research focuses on gender, abortion and reproductive (in)justices in the Global Souths (broadly understood). Her recent work focuses on critiquing medico-legal approaches to self-managed abortion, interrogating carcerality and abortion politics, and (re) conceptualising ‘safety’ and ‘risk’ in abortion and reproduction.

Dr Shelly Makleff, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne

Shelly’s current research explores strategies to reduce abortion stigma and resist reproductive injustice in the Australian health system. Her expertise in sexual and reproductive health spans stigma and social norms, quality of care, violence prevention, and qualitative approaches to evaluate social programs globally. She co-convenes the Early Career Network of the Reproductive Justice Hallmark Initiative at The University of Melbourne.

This event is free of charge and open to the public.

Registration required.

We are committed to a respectful and inclusive environment, and all attendees are expected to engage courteously in line with our code of practice on freedom of speech. Recording of this event is not permitted.

Open to: General Public, Members of Kellogg College, Oxford University members,