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Forced Sterilizations and Maternal Health in the Canadian Context

Maternal Health Task Force

Intergenerational trauma is defined as “the way in which trauma experienced in one generation affects the health and well-being of descendants of future generations”. In 1928, Alberta introduced the Sexual Sterilization Act that disproportionately targeted Indigenous women. This Act is still in consideration in the Senate.

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Can We Predict Our Ability to Conceive?

BU School of Public Health Blog

For more than a decade, researchers for Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) at the School of Public Health have uncovered lifestyle, environmental, and medical factors that may affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. As climate change worsens, PRESTO researchers are also analyzing how the environment affects reproductive health.