2025 History and Health Symposium

Date: Thursday, Nov 6, 2025

Start time: 12:00 PM

End time: 5:00 PM

Location: Virginia Museum of History and Culture, 428 N Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA 23220

Audience: Open to all

Please join us for the Fall 2025 History and Health Symposium, "Improving Access to Childbearing Health Care: Histories, Solutions and Strategies."This symposium will explore how access to childbearing care and resources is related to improving health outcomes and addressing health disparities.

The guest speaker for this event will be Michelle Debbink, MD, Ph.D., Faculty in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Utah's Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine.

Objectives: At the conclusion of the symposium, attendees should have gained increased awareness of:

Strategies to improve access to childbearing health care in local communities, including rural areas
Resources to support pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding individuals
State legislation, policies and programs that have been implemented in Virginia to address childbearing health care access

The 2025 History and Health Symposium is hosted by the Office of Health Initiatives and the Humanities Research Center, and sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Health, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the School of Dentistry at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Sponsor(s): Institute for Women’s Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Dentistry

Event contact: Ellie Musgrave, musgraveec@vcu.edu