What Is the Impact of Fertility Treatment on the Health of Resulting Children?

This Progress Educational Trust event discusses what is known about the short-term and long-term health – both physical and psychological – of people who were conceived via IVF and related reproductive technologies. More details in the description below. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ This event was held online on 29 April 2026, and was produced by the Progress Educational Trust (https://www.progress.org.uk/) in partnership with the ‪@scottishgovernment‬ (https://www.gov.scot/). INTRODUCTION • 0:00:00 – Sarah Norcross (Director, Progress Educational Trust) PRESENTATIONS • 0:01:52 – Professor Barbara Luke (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Michigan State University) • 0:15:21 – Professor Alastair Sutcliffe (Professor of General Paediatrics at University College London) • 0:25:35 – Dr Faiza Afzal (Senior Research Fellow at University College London) • 0:36:48 – Professor Vasanti Jadva (Leader of the Reproduction and the Family Research Group at City St George's, University of London) DISCUSSION • 0:51:37 – Q&A chaired by Sarah Norcross (Director, Progress Educational Trust) 🎥 The recording of this event was made by Video Production Edinburgh (https://videoproductionedinburgh.co.uk/) ▪️▪️▪️ Image in video thumbnail by Ezequiel Miron/University of Oxford, via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the misreplication of DNA in a human fetal lung fibroblast nucleus (super-resolution optical micrograph of DNA stain acquired with a 3D structured illumination microscope). Original image at https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... Image used under a CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons license. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...