About Fertility Educational Initiative

In April 2016, a joint national conference (“Fertility Summit”) was held by the British Fertility Society, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare to discuss lack of knowledge about fertility and its impact on people. Over 200 senior figures from health, education and government attended the conference. The meeting triggered the Fertility Health Task Force and eventually the Fertility Education Initiative (FEI) Special Interest Group of the British Fertility Society. The FEI was chaired by Professor Adam Balen until July 2022.

Learn more about the Fertility Summit and Fertility Health Task Force that influenced the FEI

Dr Justin Chu (TFP Oxford, Birmingham Women’s And Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and University of Oxford) is the current Chair of the Fertility Education Initiative. The Specialist Interest Group meets three times per year.

The FEI aims to deliver fertility and reproductive health education and has three objectives:

1. To improve the public’s knowledge of human fertility (including human reproduction and male and female reproductive health).
2. To improve the public’s understanding of modern families (including the variations in family building and routes to parenthood).
3. The improve the public’s understanding of medically assisted reproduction (MAR). What MAR can and cannot do and how it might impact on how human beings are made in the future.