B!RTH FESTIVAL

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

WEDNESDAY 19TH OCTOBER – CHINA & INDIA – CONTROL - what right does the state have over a woman’s body? What would you do to try and tackle population growth with dwindling resources? What are the ethics of population control?

SHAMI CHAKRABATI – Human Rights Lawyer

AOWEN JIN – Award-winning artist, feminist and commentator

KARIN KUHLEMANN – Trustee for Population Matters

THURSDAY 2OTH OCTOBER – 4.00pm – CLEAN BREAK READING OF THESE FOUR WALLS BY LAURA LOMAS – looking at the experience of childbirth in the criminal justice system and Mother and Baby Units –

MAHALA McGUFFIE – Governor, HMP Styal

NAOMI DELAP – Director, Birth Companions

RACHEL DOLAN - PhD Researcher - Pregnant women in prison: Mental health and admission to prison mother and baby units and initial outcomes for mother and child – Manchester University -

We will also be joined by a woman who is currently on day release and who has given birth recently in a Mother & Baby Unit

THURSDAY 20TH OCTOBER – KENYA & SYRIA - RESPONSIBILITY – What responsibility do we have as a global community for women from areas of conflict and deprivation? How does geographical obstacles impact on maternal and neonatal health? How does geography impact on childbirth experience and success?

PROFESSOR MUKESH KAPILA – Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester

NAANA OTOO-OYORTEY - Executive Director, FORWARD

MINNA SALAMI -Writer, feminist thinker and social critic

FRIDAY 21ST OCTOBER – UK, USA & BRAZIL - CHOICE – Can money buy freedom and control over your body? Medical intervention, choice and control – is it a good thing and does choice really exist?

CHAIR – HANNAH POOL, Journalist

PROFESSOR DANIEL BRISON - Honorary Professor of Clinical Embryology and Stem Cell Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester University

PROFESSOR MAVIS KIRKHAM - Midwifery Expert and campaigner

SATURDAY 22ND OCTOBER – FINAL PANEL DISCUSSION - ACTION: What next? What can we personally do to help improve global health inequality? Why do we fail to make headway in women’s health and childbirth?

ROWENA BURNS – CHIEF EXECUTIVE, MANCHESTER SCIENCE PARTNERSHIPS – CHAIR -

PROFESSOR NYNKE VAN DEN BROEK - Head of Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health; Professor in Maternal and Newborn Health; Honorary Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

PROFESSOR LESLEY REGAN – First female President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

PROFESSOR JACQUELINE DUNKLEY-BENT – Head of Maternity at NHS England