Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Infertility is estimated to affect one in six couples worldwide. Although male infertility contributes to more than half of all cases of global childlessness, infertility remains a woman's social and physical burden. In fact, women, and not men, are the ones exposed to fertility therapy if treatment is needed to achieve a pregnancy. Although some studies suggest long-term adverse events in women after fertility therapy (e.g cardiovascular diseases, and hormone sensitive cancers), others point to the underlying infertility diagnosis as a greater risk factor. A major limitation of current studies is a lack of comparison between untreated women with infertility to those who received fertility therapy. The GOAL of this workshop is to bring together Canadian and international experts to develop research questions and strategies to better understand the link between infertility and/or fertility therapy and women's long-term health using population-based administrative health datasets.