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Trials and Trepidation: Clinical trials during pregnancy

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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Workshop using archival material from a historic clinical trial involving pregnant women as a springboard for conversations about public health messaging, uncertainty, and risk during pregnancy. 


During pregnancy many people feel reluctant to take new medications. We saw this – and continue to see this – with COVID vaccine hesitancy amongst pregnant populations. How then do we test whether medicines are safe to take during pregnancy, when there’s reluctance to enter into clinical trials? This workshop uses archival material from a historic clinical trial involving pregnant women, as a springboard for conversations about public health messaging, uncertainty, and risk during pregnancy. This event is open to everyone, but may be of particular interest to pregnant people and new parents.

Kate Errington is a PhD researcher at Birkbeck and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research interrogates the development of risk discourses during pregnancy in 20th century Britain. Using archival material to engage with the public, Kate examines the ways in which historic knowledge can be used to reconsider and/or improve contemporary pregnancy experiences. Alongside her research, Kate is the co-founder of the Broadly Conceived reproductive network for postgraduate and early career researchers.

https://broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/

 

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