March 31, Join Ms. Live: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Menopause, From Symptoms to Systemic Reform

March 31, Join Ms. Live: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Menopause, From Symptoms to Systemic Reform - Ms. Magazine Skip to content Trending: Activism Masculinity SAVE Act Dolores Huerta FEMINIST250 Epstein survivors Immigration Women voters Health Justice & Law National Ms. to host expert panel on the realities of menopause and the policy changes needed to support millions of women.

On Tuesday, March 31, Ms. magazine will convene a panel of physicians and policy experts to demystify menopause, addressing everything from symptoms and treatment gaps, to the broader structural changes advocates say are urgently needed. (RSVP here.)

The virtual event, All You Ever Wanted to Know About Menopause, From Symptoms to Systemic Reforms (2026 Edition), will take place at 5 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. CT / 8 p.m. ET. Registration is free and open to the public.

The panel will feature:

Huong Nghiem Eilbeck, M.D., M.P.H., a physician affiliated with Pandia Health and AltaMed Health Services, with additional clinical experience across maternal health and labor medicine. She holds certifications from The Menopause Society and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, executive director of partnerships and strategy at Ms., executive director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center at NYU Law, and a leading voice on menstrual equity. Her forthcoming book, When in Menopause: A User’s Manual and Citizen’s Guide (Sheldon Press, October 2026), expands her work connecting reproductive health to policy and democratic participation. Sophia Yen, M.D., M.P.H., a physician trained at MIT, UCSF and UC Berkeley, and CEO and co-founder of Pandia Health, a birth control delivery company. Yen specializes in adolescent medicine and reproductive health, with a clinical focus that spans contraception, menstrual regulation and broader gynecological care. The panel will be moderated by Roxanne Szal, managing digital editor at Ms.

Summer 2024 issue of Ms. magazine. (Art by Brandi Phipps) When in Menopause: A User’s Manual and Citizen’s Guide, by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, out Oct. 6, 2026, from Sheldon Press. Despite affecting roughly half the population in their lifetimes (and roughly 20 percent of the current U.S. workforce), menopause remains under-researched, underfunded and often stigmatized—leaving many without adequate medical guidance or institutional support. And right now, demand for menopause hormone therapy is surging—driven by updated research and the FDA’s removal of long-standing safety warnings. Now, patients are scrambling to fill prescriptions amid ongoing shortages.

The March 31 conversation will discuss symptom treatment, as well as economic impact, workplace culture and policy reform.

Join Ms. for this important conversation, and ring in the last day of Women’s History Month in community and conversation with fellow feminists. RSVP here. And if you can’t make it live, sign up for Ms. email alerts to get a recording sent after the event.

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About Roxanne Szal Roxanne Szal (or Roxy) is the managing digital editor at Ms. and a producer on the Ms. podcast On the Issues With Michele Goodwin. She is also a mentor editor for The OpEd Project. Before becoming a journalist, she was a Texas public school English teacher. She is based in Austin, Texas. Connect with her on Instagram and LinkedIn. You May Also Like: The Guise of ‘Parental Rights’ Is Denying Young People Critical Care Laura Hernández Could This Be the Last Women’s History Month? Nourbese Flint