Part 1: Environmental toxicants and their impact on fertility

• The increasing amounts of endocrine disrupting chemicals in our environment since the 1950s
• How endocrine disrupting chemicals affect fertility in both males and females
• The effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on the fetus
• How to minimise exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in our environment

Host: Dr Terri Foran, Medical Educator

Expert: A/Prof Mark Green, Reproductive Biologist

Recommended resources:

• How to avoid chemical that can affect fertility | Your fertility
• Environmental Working Group
• The Endocrine Disruption Exchange

Part 2: Repairing fistulas in Africa

• One doctor’s personal experience of working in Africa to positively change the lives of women with obstetric fistula
• Approximately two million women in the world suffer the effects of obstetric fistula but have little or no access to fistula surgery, almost all in developing countries
• Providing women with access to a safe child birth practices is the best form of prevention
• The role of an Australian charity – The Barbara May Foundation, in tackling this issue

Host: Dr Vivienne Miller, Medical Educator

Expert: Dr Andrew Browning AM, Obstetrician

Recommended resources:

• Barbara May Foundation