Contraceptive Self-Care Webinar
On Wednesday, September 24th, 2025, from 13h00 Casablanca/14h00 Geneva/15h00 Nairobi, the IBP Network hosted a webinar for Contraceptive Self-Care: The ability of individuals to space, time, and limit pregnancies in alignment with their preferences, with or without the support of a healthcare provider. This HIP Enhancement on Contraceptive Self-care describes how this practice can positively enhance other evidence-based HIPs, provides examples from implementation in various settings, indicators, tools and resources, and priority research questions.
Key Materials
Moderator and Speakers
The webinar was moderated by Nandita Thatte, WHO/IBP Network. Nandita Thatte leads the IBP Network in the Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research at WHO in Geneva. She is passionate about using the WHO/IBP platform to disseminate and support the use of evidence-based interventions and guidelines, inform implementation research and program priorities and amplify local partners and experiences on a global scale. Prior to joining WHO, Nandita was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Population & Reproductive Health at USAID. She has a MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a DrPH from the George Washington University. Nandita is a member of the HIPs Co-sponsor Group.
Manjulaa Narasimhan, WHO. Manjulaa Narasimhan leads WHO’s work on self-care to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights and is the recipient of the WHO Director-General award for excellence in innovation. Manjulaa is a strong proponent of innovative, people-centered approaches in health policy. She believes that sustainable health solutions must be rooted in the lived experiences of the communities they aim to serve. She has championed the use of participatory research methods that actively involve community members in policy development, ensuring that policies are evidence-based and culturally acceptable to those they impact. Manjulaa has also identified and managed strategic planning and oversight of prevention technologies and built bridges between stakeholders to positively influence public policy.
Carl Massonneau, WHO. Carl Massonneau is a Technical Officer in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Department at WHO. His responsibilities include supporting WHO’s guideline on self-care interventions for health and well-being, and conducting implementation research to introduce and scale up self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) globally. With a background in economics and political science, Carl has worked with various countries and regions, including the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the WHO Representative Office in the South Pacific based in Fiji. In 2023, Carl and the team at HQ were awarded the WHO Director-General’s Staff Excellence Award for Innovation for their work on self-care, in collaboration with the WHO India Country Office.
Megan Christofield, Jhpiego. Megan Christofield’s work centers on closing gaps in contraceptive access and choice. As Jhpiego’s global technical lead for family planning and self-care, she supports teams to introduce and scale reproductive health products, strengthen enabling environments, and design service delivery models that put products, information, and care within easier reach of the people who use them. She was an inaugural Steering Committee member of the Self-Care Trailblazer Group and a member of the Technical Expert Group for this HIP Enhancement. Megan holds an MPH in Women’s and Reproductive Health from Johns Hopkins University.
Sarah Onyango, PSI. Dr Sarah Onyango is Technical Advisor, Self-Care, PSI, and Project Director, Self-Care Trailblazer Group, a coalition of over 1,000 individuals and 450+ organizations dedicated to advancing self-care in sexual & reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Sarah has over 20 years’ experience leading advocacy and programming for SRHR. She has worked with international SRHR organizations and programmes with industry leaders such Ipas, Planned Parenthood Global, USAID and IPPF. Early in her career, she worked with the Kenya Ministry of Health, and has served as a technical representative at WHO, UNFPA, FIGO, and the IBP Network. Sarah is a medical doctor with Master’s degrees in Public Health and Health Research.
Nadia Bezad, OPALS Morocco. Dr. Nadia Bezad is a physician specializing in public health. She is the President of the Organisation Panafricaine de Lutte contre le Sida (OPALS) Morocco and Vice-President of OPALS International. For more than three decades, she has been a leading advocate for HIV/AIDS prevention, sexual and reproductive health, and the promotion of self-care interventions in Morocco and across Africa. Nadia has been recognized internationally for her contributions, receiving prestigious honors such as the Ordre de mérite from the French Red Cross (2006) and the Légion d’Honneur of France (2015). She also collaborates closely with WHO as an expert on self-care in sexual and reproductive health and has led the national adoption of WHO self-care guidelines in Morocco.