U-M School of Nursing welcomes visiting scholar Michelle Hindin Oct. 4
On Monday, Oct. 4, the University of Michigan School of Nursing will welcome Visiting Scholar Michelle J. Hindin, Ph.D. MHS, director of the Population Council’s Reproductive Health Program. Hindin will deliver her presentation, “’Women Manufacture Children and if You Can’t You Are Just a Man’: Exploring the Burden of Infertility,” at 2 p.m. EDT in the North Ingalls Building, room 1250. The event is open to the entire U-M School of Nursing Community and will be livestreamed on Zoom for those who cannot attend in person.
Prior to her global leadership position at the Population Council, Hindin was a professor in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she continues to hold an adjunct appointment. She also served as a scientist in the World Health Organization’s Reproductive Health and Research Department, overseeing reproductive health research and programming across the world. A global expert in gender inequities in sexual and reproductive health, Hindin has worked in multiple countries, including extensive work in Ghana, Zimbabwe and the Philippines.
With expertise in qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research, Hindin has published more than 125 peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from contraceptive use to women’s empowerment. She earned her Ph.D. and Master of Arts in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, as well as a Master of Health Science in the Department of Population Dynamics at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
