On May 30th, the Global Health Council's annual conference featured a panel discussion on a new report from the UN Millennium Project entitled, "Public Choices, Private Decisions: Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals."

The report's author, Stan Bernstein of the UN Millennium Project and UNFPA, was joined on the panel by renowned author and development expert Jeffrey D. Sachs of the UN Millennium Project, and by Ana Langer, president and CEO of EngenderHealth and a leading expert in women's and family health services. The panel was moderated by Nils Daulaire, president of the Global Health Council.

It was a fantastic conversation, featuring some of the most expert voices in this field. These leaders and others like them do the work that makes Rewire possible — they provide the solid research and thinking on reproductive health to counter the fuzzy logic of opponents.

As Nils Daulaire said during the question & answer time:

"The people who are here (at the conference)…are scientific and public health professionals. They base their conclusions and their actions on facts and evidence — that's our job. They are not ideologues or polemicists, and I think that the way we have to address these issues is to calmly and clearly make evident that those who would politicize family planning and contraception do so at the cost of women's lives in impoverished societies. This is the goal that we have been working for."

Well said.

Rewire was there with video cameras, and we are making the presentation available in two forms: an audio version of the entire presentation for easy download, and the full video presentation, broken into several parts to be watched in sequence. The video versions also include interviews with Stan Bernstein and Ana Langer conducted by Rewire after the presentation. Those interviews are not contained in the audio-only version.

The audio-only version is available at the bottom of this page. To watch the video presenation, use the following links:

• Introduction from Nils Daulaire
• Comments from Stan Bernstein
• Comments from Jeffrey Sachs (Part 1)
• Comments from Jeffrey Sachs (Part 2)
• Comments from Ana Langer
• Question & Answer Session (Part 1)
• Question & Answer Session (Part 2)
• Rewire Interviews with Ana Langer & Stan Bernstein

Listen to the audio version by pressing play below:

(This is a LARGE file: 52 MB. Please be patient while the file loads, or feel free to download it from the link at the bottom of this post and listen to it later. You’ll need Quicktime to listen to it on our site.)