APPLICATION IS OPEN TILL NEXT MONDAY 20 APRIIL.
The lecturers are across from East Asia and UK and a wide range of disciplines. See more details at: hokkaidosummerinstitute.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/en/courses/C...
Very excited to speak during the course and learn from the other lecturers!
Are you interested in learning about behaviours regarding reproduction incl.fertility treatment?
Join us the 4-day course on 13-16 July 2026 - either online (from anywhere in the world!) or in person in cool Hokkaido - the northernmost main island in Japan! (taught in English)
Attended this vibrent event, whbeyond.com bringing femtech entrepreneurs, experts, govt officials & investors from Japan and abroad. Many use direct-to-consumer testing kits esp hormones. real-time hormone monitoring device; wearables; EHR from patients/hospitals; PGT-A etc. Lots to take in!
Japanese Femtech players map 2024. Much more focusing on fertility, menopause etc than before.
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An interesting and important experiment about how the intimate SRH data collected in the popular period trackers are compliant with the UK GDPR. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"The FemTech market was valued at approximately $39 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $97 billion by 2030"
Great to see this Contraception Special Issue on the Emergence of "FemTech" within the Sexual and Reproductive Health Landscape - Contraception www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S001...
Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 😁
“everything was relative — there was no absolute standard of how things worked: "The key is not necessarily feeling completely comfortable, but understanding why these differences exist."
www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
Kicking off London Universities Population Seminars for the new academic year!
Join us Oct 28 in person (LSE, KSW.G.01) or online to hear from Prof Karen Glaser (KCL) on mental & physical health changes among adults aged 50-69 in England.
Full schedule & sign up:
sites.google.com/view/londonp...
“Records will always fall—but when they fall too fast, it’s a warning sign.
In sport, it’s exciting.
In climate, it’s alarming.”
In a personal blog, Professor Francesco Checchi discusses the pressing situation in #Gaza amidst increased levels of starvation, and what this may mean for the future 👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Great example of where AI gets all the credit but the ACTUAL contribution (in this case, sperm for fertilisation) was from the human. AI helped. It helped a lot. But without the human, AI would be impotent. Good allegory here.
edition.cnn.com/2025/07/03/h...
▪️ Almost 21,000 babies were born from IVF in 2023
▪️ 11% of all UK births among women aged 40-44 are as a result of IVF.
▪️ Births from donor treatment made up around 1 in 5 of all IVF and DI births in 2023, accounting for around 1 in 153 of all UK births, which is more than previous years.
1 in 32 babies now born after IVF in the UK - roughly one child in every classroom.
This year's HFEA report has more demographic perspectives:
See more findings 👇
tinyurl.com/47bmjm8k
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“If it can seem at times that seagulls are taking over British towns, the fact is that their numbers aren’t rising at all – they are falling sharply. In some traditional coastal nesting sites, the most recent national seabird census found, the populations have all but collapsed”
Menopause in low and middle-income countries:
“The prevalences of vasomotor symptoms, joint pain and sexual concerns were comparable with high-income countries. However, data on the severity and burden of symptoms were scarce”
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Indeed another excellent and timely piece to unpack the discourse behind it.
“The lesson from abroad is clear: lasting change requires transforming the conditions that make parenthood feel untenable, not just offering token incentives.”
Another excellent piece from a demographer, this time Stuart Gietel-Basten, on how "pronatalism is a dead end"
"Without addressing the root causes of low fertility—inequality, instability, and the incompatibility of work and family life—top-down efforts to “encourage” childbearing will fail"
👶 #Farage wants a UK baby boom — will it work? 🍼
Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social says: “Throwing money at it doesn’t work.”
Tax breaks ≠ baby boom.
Work hours, #housing, #childcare — it takes an ecosystem.
📎 Telegraph article:
tinyurl.com/m6b9kbxm
#fertility #demography
Over the weekend, BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions programme - not typically a bastion of far-right values - included uncontested claims of how “low birthrates are the biggest problem the UK faces”. Worrying how quickly this view, rejected by experts in demography, is becoming mainstream
Harmonising physical health measures in five national cohort studies webinar information with a photo of a little girl sitting on a sofa using an inhaler while reading a book.
🌟 Join us for our latest free webinar on Thursday, 12 June 2025. Discover new harmonised asthma and diabetes measures, find out how you could use these data to compare 5 generations, and learn about other future health data releases.
👉 Register here: buff.ly/1TF4P00
Looking forward to connecting repro people this Friday! More information and free tickets from👇
1 in 5 Births in Seoul Results from Infertility Procedure in august 2024! The Seoul Metropolitan Govt will support 25 treatments per couple.
The relative contribution of ART and the support is highest i have ever seen. ART babies are about 10% in Japan and Denmark
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