Talk Overview

Dr Gemma Sharp, founder and director of the 4M consortium, will discuss the emerging (or not so emerging) concept of ‘feminist epidemiology’ and how it can address anti-feminist biases in mainstream epidemiology, public health, and discourses around the health of women. She will discuss some of her own research that has applied this approach.

Speaker – Dr Gemma Sharp

Dr Gemma Sharp is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Exeter, where she researches and teaches about mental health, reproductive health, and early life influences on health and wellbeing. She trained as a reproductive biologist and completed her PhD at the Centre for Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh in 2013. She spent almost a decade working in the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, where she first established the 4M consortium. In 2023, Dr Sharp moved institutions, and to an extent, disciplines, to explore the intersections of reproductive health, epidemiology and psychology in the University of Exeter’s School of Psychology.

When

The seminar will take place online via zoom on Monday December 11th, 13:00-14:00 (GMT). As with all our talks in this seminar series, it’s FREE for anyone to join! Register to attend the seminar here or click below.