BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:73ce4156fbb3a71ce840efae8107755d DTSTAMP:20260603T231536Z DTSTART:20200522T150000 DTEND:20200522T163000 SUMMARY:Masked heroines? Building resilience begins with a gender-equitable health workforce DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the deep inequities that undermine global health, especially gender inequities impacting women front line health and care workers. In the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, few health and care workers (many of whom are women) have safe and decent working conditions, appropriate protection and equal and timely pay. How many decision makers in health systems are women? Do we collect sufficient data and evidence to understand the implications of COVID-19 on female health workers? Speakers in this session will share the perspectives of female health workers during this pandemic, and review lessons learnt from previous large-scale outbreaks – how health systems lose when gender equality is ignored, what can be done better, and how we all may gain by applying a gender lens. This event is co-sponsored by the Global Health Centre, Women in Global Health, and GENDRO. \nSPEAKERS\n\nHaja Ramatulai Wurie, Dean, Faculty of Nursing; Senior Lecturer, Biochemistry Department, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone\nMichelle McIsaac, Researcher and Economist, World Health Organization\nNawal Maredia, Nurse, Patient Care Coordinator, Pakistan\nShirin Heidari, Founding President of GENDRO; Senior Research Fellow, Global Health Centre\nSneha Krishnan, Co-Founder, Environment, Technology, and Community Health Consultancy Services\nModerated by Roopa Dhatt, Co-Founder and Chair, Women in Global Health\n\nRegistration: https://graduateinstitute.ch/73WHA-Health-Women X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the deep inequities that undermine global health, especially gender inequities impacting women front line health and care workers. In the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, few health and care workers (many of whom are women) have safe and decent working conditions, appropriate protection and equal and timely pay. How many decision makers in health systems are women? Do we collect sufficient data and evidence to understand the implications of COVID-19 on female health workers? Speakers in this session will share the perspectives of female health workers during this pandemic, and review lessons learnt from previous large-scale outbreaks – how health systems lose when gender equality is ignored, what can be done better, and how we all may gain by applying a gender lens. This event is co-sponsored by the Global Health Centre, Women in Global Health, and GENDRO. 


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Registration: https://graduateinstitute.ch/73WHA-Health-Women

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