2025 John R. Evans Lectureship in Global Health
Schedule
Tue Nov 18 2025 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
University of Toronto - HYBRID | Toronto, ON
About this Event
2025 John R. Evans Lectureship in Global Health
Hosted by the DLSPH's Centre for Global Health
This is a hybrid event. Select either the in-person or virtual ticket type based on how you plan on attending. The campus location and Zoom link will be shared with registered attendees closer to the event date.
Lecture Title: Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Justice: Finding Our Feet; Standing Our Ground
Speaker: Alicia Ely Yamin
Discussants: Amaya Perez-Brumer & Kayla Benjamin
Moderator: Erica Di Ruggiero
Abstract: There may be no area in which applying human rights to health has been more successful than sexual and reproductive rights. Not only have we changed norms over the last thirty plus years, but we have also transformed institutional practices and affected embodied human beings’ lives and well-being.
However, we now face a sweeping anti-gender politics across the world. Anti-‘Gender Ideology’ has become a key rhetorical tool in the construction of a new conception of ‘common sense’ about what is normal and legitimate, and it is linked rhetorically to a backlash against neoliberal globalization. Because of the US role in global health financing and governance, and its influence on the world order more broadly, the Trump administration’s anti-gender actions have had far reaching and devastating consequences.
But the Trump administration is not unique. Further, even before Trump was inaugurated for a second time, the evolving political economy of global health had limited the effective enjoyment of sexual and reproductive rights in practice for swathes of people across the globe.
Drawing on specific examples from work done in countries around the world, this talk will discuss what we have achieved in applying human rights to sexual and reproductive health, where human rights approaches have fallen short, and where we might go now.
About the John R. Evans Lectureship in Global Health
The John R. Evans Lectureship in Global Health was established by Dr. David Naylor, when he was The University of Toronto’s Dean of Medicine. The lectureship acknowledges the major role Dr. Evans played in the University of Toronto’s history and his global contributions to the advancement of human health and well-being.
Agenda
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Lecture
Host: Alicia Ely Yamin
Info: Hybrid
🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Moderated Discussion
Host: Alicia Ely Yamin
Info: Hybrid
🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Reception
Info: In person at event venue.
Where is it happening?
University of Toronto - HYBRID, St. George Campus, Toronto, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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