Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM)
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The SRHM Podcast explores new research and emerging trends in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters or SRHM promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights globally. At the heart of SRHM is a multidisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. SRHM also creates and participates in spaces that motivate improvements in research, policy, services and practice. It contributes to capacity building in knowledge generation. Learn more at srhm.org. Music by Tiber Krisztián and Salamon Botond Sound editing by We Edit Podcasts

  1. 4D AGO

    Hungary’s 12 April 2026 Elections: Personal and Professional Reflections Across Generations

    In this episode, we hear personal and professional reflections from Eszter Kismődi, Hungarian Citizen, International Human Rights Lawyer and Chief Executive of SRHM. Just hours after the elections results were announced, Eszter hosts a series of conversations bringing together legal, generational, and civic perspectives on this political moment and its implications for democracy, human rights, and public institutions.

    16 min

  2. APR 4

    The Constitutionalisation of Abortion in France and Beyond: Reflections Two Years On in a Global Context

    In this episode of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) Podcast, Eszter Kismődi speaks with Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, Professor of Public Law at Université Paris Nanterre and Senior Member of the Institut universitaire de France, about France’s landmark 2024 constitutional reform recognising abortion as a “guaranteed freedom,” as well as the subsequent December 2025 law acknowledging the harms caused by the criminalisation of abortion prior to 1975.

    33 min

  3. MAR 27

    Reconnecting SRHR and Devlopment Justice: Launch of the Global South Coalition

    In this episode of the SRHM podcast, Eszter Kismődi, Chief Executive of SRHM, speaks with Professor Gita Sen, a globally recognised feminist economist from India whose work has been instrumental in shaping global debates linking gender equality, development justice, and SRHR. The conversation highlights both why it is timely and necessary to reconnect SRHR with development justice in the current global political moment, and the launch of the Global South Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Development Justice. Find out more about the Global South Coalition and the launch event on 31 March 2026 at srhrdevelopmentjustice.org

    33 min

  4. MAR 20

    Intersecting Crises and Cross-sector Solutions: Environmental Justice and SRHR

    This episode of the SRHM Podcast brings together leading experts to explore the intersections between environmental justice and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), in the context of the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Opening and closing remarks are delivered by Thoại D. Ngô, Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor and Chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The discussion is moderated by Eszter Kismődi, Chief Executive of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. Speakers include Aleya Khalifa (Columbia University), Allan Achesa Maleche (Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS), Neha Mankani (International Confederation of Midwives), Sai Jyothirmai Racherla (Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women), and Marta Schaaf (Amnesty International). The episode examines how climate change, extractivism, land dispossession, and unequal resource governance intersect with economic inequality to shape SRHR outcomes, particularly for women and girls. It highlights accountability gaps and structural barriers to justice, while pointing to evidence-based, rights-driven pathways that advance equality, sustainability, and community wellbeing.

    1h 16m

  5. MAR 13

    Power and authorship in gender and sexual and reproductive research

    Who produces knowledge on gender and sexual and reproductive health in Africa, and whose voices shape the evidence that informs policy and practice? In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, Sapna Desai, Editor-in-Chief of the SRHM Journal, speaks with researchers Woldekidan Amde and Kéfilath Bello about their recent scoping review examining authorship, geography, and funding in research on gender approaches to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) across Africa. Analysing 45 publications from 2012 to 2022, the study reveals striking imbalances. Most first and senior authors were based outside Africa, funding overwhelmingly came from high income countries, and over one fifth of papers had no local authors at all. These patterns raise critical questions about power in knowledge production, the credibility and relevance of research, and the ability of evidence to influence policy and practice locally. The conversation explores why these inequities persist despite growing calls to decolonise global health. It also looks at what must change: strengthening local research ecosystems, expanding mentoring for early career researchers, supporting south–south collaboration, and ensuring equitable funding and authorship practices. Together, the speakers reflect on how more locally led, contextually grounded research is essential not only for equity, but for better quality knowledge and meaningful change in sexual and reproductive health. Read the full paper, 'Imbalances in authorship, geographic and institutional contexts, and funding sources in research on gender approaches to sexual and reproductive health in Africa: a scoping review' by Woldekidan Amde, Kéfilath Bello, Tanya Jacobs, TK Sundari Ravindran & Asha S. George at srhmjournal.org.

    32 min

  6. FEB 24

    Survival strategies and health repercussions in forced displacement: Transactional sex in focus

    In this episode of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast, Eszter Kismődi speaks with Dr Shirin Heidari and Professor Monica A. Onyango about their multi-country study, Survival Strategies and Health Repercussions in Forced Displacement. Drawing on research conducted between 2021 and 2024 in Jordan, Lebanon, Türkiye, Greece and Switzerland, they examine how transactional sex emerges within conditions of legal precarity, restricted asylum regimes, housing insecurity and limited access to work and services. The conversation challenges binary notions of “choice” and “force”, highlights intersecting health consequences including sexual and reproductive health outcomes, and calls for integrated, rights-based responses grounded in lived realities.Read the full paper at srhmjournal.org.

    35 min

  7. FEB 13

    Finding the Cosmos of Intimacies: Send Us Your Love Letters

    This Valentine’s Day and World Condom Day, SRHM turns to pleasure. In this episode, we spotlight the editorial of SRHM’s Pleasure Collection developed in collaboration with The Pleasure Project and Agents of Ishq. Too often, sexual and reproductive health and rights are framed only through risk, prevention and harm. This editorial invites us to think differently. It calls for a politics of pleasure that is decolonial, grounded in lived experience, and willing to challenge hierarchies about who produces knowledge and what counts as credible. Marking 13 and 14 February, we also highlight a clear message backed by evidence: when pleasure is centred, condom use increases. Pleasure and protection belong together. Featuring a reading by Anne Philpott and Elena Ascione from The Pleasure Project, this episode is also an open invitation. Send us your love letters. Send your papers, blogs, poetry, podcast ideas, art, as we celebrate sexual pleasure as a key aspect of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. Because pleasure is progress. Pleasure matters. Useful links: Read the editorial, 'Finding the cosmos of intimacies: where pleasurable safe sex dances with liberation' by Anne Phihlpott and Paromita Vohra at srhmjournal.org.Explore the Pleasure Collection of the SRHM Journal at srhm.org.

    23 min

  8. FEB 6

    Re-release - Female genital mutilation in Africa: Politics of criminalisation

    On 9 September 2025, SRHM hosted a thought-provoking webinar to launch the open-access book Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Politics of Criminalisation, edited by Satang Nabaneh, Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, and affiliated faculty at the Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. Introduced by Eszter Kismödi, Chief Executive of SRHM, the event brought together contributing authors to reflect on the complex and evolving debates around FGM in Africa, particularly the role and limits of criminalization. Speakers: Satang Nabaneh (Moderator) - Beyond legislation: Examining the efficacy of criminalisation of female genital mutilation in AfricaAngela J Dawson - Research and female genital mutilation prevention: Evidence from AfricaSamuel Kimani - Medicalisation of female genital mutilation/cutting: Ethical dimensionsLaura Nyirinkindi - A case commentary on law and advocacy for women in Uganda v the Attorney General: Exploring the legal steps taken in abolishing the practice of female genital mutilation and challenges with implementing the decisionThis episode is being re-released on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation 2026.

    56 min
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The SRHM Podcast explores new research and emerging trends in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters or SRHM promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights globally. At the heart of SRHM is a multidisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. SRHM also creates and participates in spaces that motivate improvements in research, policy, services and practice. It contributes to capacity building in knowledge generation. Learn more at srhm.org. Music by Tiber Krisztián and Salamon Botond Sound editing by We Edit Podcasts

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