Engagement
Seminars & Talks
Not Just Reproductive: a SAHELI webinar with Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters/Health Equity Network India Equilogues with partners across South Asia in December 2024.
Women’s Health Needs and Access to Healthcare: CSEP Seminar, March 2025
BU Politics of Global Health Seminar, April 2025
Hyderabad Literature Festival: Beyond Periods and Pregnancy for Women’s Health, January 2025
CommonHealth-Coalition for Reproductive Health and Safe Abortion Webinar on Hysterectomy, November 2025
Unnecessary Hysterectomy in India: Women’s Health & Rights at the Crossroads of Society, Technology, and Health Systems Seminar, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University
Consultations & Panels
In 2023, Prayas, SAHELI/Population Council Institute and UNFPA collaborated to convene six state-level consultations on hysterectomy and gynecological care with gynecologists, policymakers, researchers and women’s groups. With over 400 participants, the meetings aimed to increase awareness on the National Guidelines to Prevent Unnecessary Hysterectomy. Read our policy brief here, along with reports on earlier consultations held in partnership with Prayas.
A round table discussion on “Unnecessary Hysterectomies in young women – Government Guidelines, care givers perspective and the way forward” with the Patna Chapter of the Indian Society of Perinatology and Reproductive Biology (ISOPARB), December 2024.