Scientific Program Tracks

Explore the official ICFP 2025 Conference Tracks below ↓

1. ICFP 2025 Theme – Equity Through Action: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All

Track focus: Exploration of how reproductive policies and programs can address persistent inequities, emphasizing decolonizing the sexual and reproductive health and rights ecosystem. Submissions will focus on advancing sexual and reproductive health strategies that tackle intersecting challenges/polycrises—poverty, conflict, climate change, and political threats to reproductive rights—through approaches grounded in equity, justice, and inclusivity. The track highlights innovative policies, practices, partnerships, program implementation, and advocacy efforts that drive transformative change, ensuring sexual and reproductive health services and rights are equitable and accessible to all individuals.

2. Environment and Climate Change

Track focus: Examination of the importance of family planning and reproductive health for climate change resilience, enabling an adaptive environment to mitigate the effects of climate change, including food and water shortages, disease outbreaks, etc. This track also explores climate change’s impact on access to sexual and reproductive health products and services and the mitigation techniques being utilized to overcome these effects and support those displaced by disasters.

3. Population and Sustainable Development

Track focus: Exploration of family planning’s contributions to achieving sustainable development goals, including the post-2030 agenda. It will address various aspects, including maternal and child health benefits, women’s empowerment and gender equality, security and resilience, economic development, and environmental advantages. The track will examine the consequences of protracted demographic transitions and post-transition dynamics on social, economic, and planetary health and inequities.

4. Social Norms and Behavior Change

Track focus: Exploration of the impact of social and community influences that enable and limit reproductive health behaviors and service use. This includes conditions for the success of interventions and messages designed to create awareness and improve the demand for contraception to achieve people’s reproductive goals. The track consists of but is not limited to testing theories of social and behavior change, media engagement, community and faith-based approaches, implementation strategies, expanding access through new channels, communication strategies, and potential for scale-up.

5. Social Determinants of Reproductive Health Outcomes Across the Life Course

Track focus: Examination of reproductive preferences and reproductive health needs throughout the life course, encompassing topics such as pregnancy prevention, fertility intentions, abortion and post-abortion care, infertility, and parenting. This encompasses how individual, partner/s and/or peers, family, community, and societal factors (religion, culture) contribute to the gap between fertility intentions and achievement, inequity, and reproductive justice and how addressing social determinants, intersectoral work, and social and community participation can contribute to reducing inequities in access to RH throughout the life course.

6. Gender and Power Dynamics

Track focus: Exploration of the intersection of gender and power in shaping or limiting agency, autonomy, and decision-making power over sexual and reproductive choices. Topics encompass research and practices (programs/campaigns/etc.) aimed at empowering women and girls, male engagement, youth, and marginalized communities, including internally displaced persons and migrants, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, ethnic and racial minoritized populations, Indigenous Persons, those living in extreme poverty, and historically marginalized populations. This track also addresses issues of discrimination, reproductive coercion, and gender-based violence, with a focus on expanding inclusive approaches to support people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender-expansive identities.

7. Access, Integration, Quality, and Technology

Track focus: Exploration of enablers and barriers and the conditions for success in increasing access and improving the quality of comprehensive reproductive health services (contraception, abortion and post-abortion care, and infertility). The track examines models of service delivery from clinical care and primary health care to self-care, including but not limited to task-sharing, client/provider interactions, community-based delivery approaches, integration with other health services (e.g., maternal and child health, vaccination, HIV), and mHealth/artificial intelligence solutions. It also includes innovative strategies to reduce inequities in sexual and reproductive health services by developing new family planning/reproductive health technologies (including male contraception), quality improvement strategies, and ensuring commodity security and logistics.

8. Markets, Funding, and Commodity Security

Track focus: Examination of family planning markets, addressing key topics such as trends, innovations, and challenges in the funding landscape for family planning and other aspects of sexual and reproductive health. This includes contraception, abortion, post-abortion care, post-partum care, and infertility treatment. It will also focus on the development, resilience, integration, and structure of family planning markets and the roles of both private and public sectors. Additionally, the track will examine how universal health coverage contributes to advancing reproductive health equity.

9. Adolescents and Youth

Track focus: Identification of enablers and barriers to promoting adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (AYSRHR). Key topics will encompass research and interventions (e.g., programs, campaigns, etc.) related to emerging sexual and reproductive health competencies among adolescents and youth (e.g., knowledge, attitudes, interpersonal skills, agency), reproductive health needs, and AYSRHR inequities. This track also includes exploring strategies and policy initiatives to promote youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (e.g., comprehensive sexuality education, school-based interventions, and reaching in- and out-of-school youth), enhance youth engagement, and foster innovations in AYSRHR programming (e.g., digital health, social media, etc.).

10. Humanitarian Settings and Crises

Track focus: Examining the challenges and innovative solutions for delivering essential and comprehensive SRH services in humanitarian contexts, including natural disasters, epidemics, and armed conflicts. This track focuses on tailored and innovative solutions to provide essential and comprehensive SRH services in all types of conflict and crisis settings, including emergency preparedness and competencies needed to adapt to and preserve sexual and reproductive health and care during and after crises. This includes practical strategies and programs for refugees, internally displaced populations, host communities, and others affected by humanitarian crises and mitigation of and adaptation to the effects of climate change.

11. Faith and Religion

Track focus: Exploring the role of religious leaders and faith-based organizations in family planning, including interfaith approaches. Key topics include the relationship between religion and social norms related to family planning, faith-based considerations in comprehensive sexuality education, religion, and family planning in conflict, post-conflict, and extremism, and faith-based organizations and partnerships for family planning.

12. Advances in Measurement and Analytics

Track focus: Examining indicators and analytical strategies that enhance research, monitoring, and accountability. This track examines new sexual and reproductive health and rights indicators and their value. It also includes new data sources, artificial intelligence, and machine learning techniques for processing large datasets, modeling sexual and reproductive health behaviors, measuring inequities in reproductive health, and understanding their impact on population dynamics.

13. Sexuality and Sexual Health

Track focus: Exploration of sexuality and sexual health across the life course, including sexual knowledge and attitudes, sexual identities, sexual relations, and sexual practices. It examines programs, strategies, and policies addressing sexual health inequities and promoting sexual well-being through education and SRH services. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of understanding and promoting positive sexual experiences (intimacy, pleasure, satisfaction), emphasizing consent, and protecting sexual rights, highlighting their importance in overall well-being and discussing their effective integration into comprehensive SRH services.

14. Overlooked Areas in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Track focus: Inclusion of cross-cutting and innovative new approaches to equitable sexual and reproductive health and rights. These may include multifaceted approaches, unique partnerships, work with champions, and the use of art, media, music, and/or theater to advance family planning and reproductive equity.