by admin | May 26, 2022 | Events
26 May 2022 | Organisers: UNITE and GENDRO
UNITE, a global parliamentarian network for global health, hosted a webinar as a side event of the World Health Assembly “Gender, equity and human rights at the heart of the pandemic convention.”
Dr. Shirin Heidari, the founding president of GENDRO, spoke at this webinar on the impact of COVID-19 and pandemics on women’s rights and the need to include a gender perspective in the pandemic convention. Heidari highlighted GENDRO’s Consensus Statement which urgers Member States to the Pandemic Treaty to prioritize gender equality and human rights in a new international instrument for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. It emphasizes the need for gender-responsive research, inclusive policies, and measures to address gender-based violence and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services.
This webinar facilitated a dialogue between parliamentarians and gender experts and global health professionals to exchange insights into how human rights and gender equality approaches can be incorporated into future pandemic policies.
Event website: https://gphcpanel.org/events/gender-equity-and-human-rights-at-the-heart-of-the-pandemic-convention/
by admin | Apr 6, 2022 | Publications
Tim Nutbeam, Lauren Weekes, Shirin Heidari, Rob Fenwick, Omar Bouamra, Jason Smith, Willem Stassen
BMJ Open – April 6, 2022
Objectives. To identify the differences between women and men in the probability of entrapment, frequency of injury and outcomes following a motor vehicle collision. Publishing sex-disaggregated data, understanding differential patterns and exploring the reasons for these will assist with ensuring equity of outcomes especially in respect to triage, rescue and treatment of all patients.
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by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Publications
Lavanya Vijayasingham, Shirin Heidari, Jean Munro, Saad Omer, Noni MacDonald
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics – January 25, 2022
The influence of sex and gender in immune response and vaccine outcomes is established in many disease areas, including in COVID-19. Yet, there are notable gaps in the consideration of sex and gender in the analysis and reporting of COVID-19 vaccines clinical trial data. The push for stronger sex and gender integration in vaccines science should be championed by all researchers and stakeholders across the R&D and access ecosystem – not just gender experts.
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by admin | Jan 22, 2022 | Publications
Shirin Heidari
Gaceta Sanitaria – January, 2022
We failed to adequately launch a gender transformative response to COVID-19 pandemic, data by sex on a variety of indicators for most countries are hard to find. Some symptoms reported as common of COVID-19 infection, are more prominent in men, while others are more prominent in women, one cannot with certainty exclude that some of the differences observed could be due to gender bias in the management of cases in health services. The gender implications of the pandemic reach wide and far. Inequalities can be further aggravated as sex and gender intersect with other axes of inequality.
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by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Publications
Abha Saxena, Emily Lasher, Claire Somerville, Shirin Heidari
OXFORD Academic, International Health – January 18, 2022
Despite a growing consensus on the importance of integrating sex and gender in health research, research across disciplines continues to be conducted and reported without a gender focus. Research ethics committees (RECs) can play a particularly powerful role in identifying the gender gaps at an early stage of the development of research protocols. Their role is missing in the dialogue related to improving gender awareness and analysis in health research. A scoping review was conducted to examine the extent to which RECs discuss and consider the inclusion and analysis of sex and gender in health research and to examine the literature regarding the gender balance of RECs. The limited literature around gender and research ethics reveals the power and potential of RECs to ensure that gender dimensions are thoughtfully included in health research, and sheds light on the gaps that exist. These include an under-representation of women on RECs, a lack of awareness of the importance of gender-related aspects in health research and a paucity of gender-related training to RECs. Guidelines such as the Sex and Gender Equity in Research guidelines are required for RECs to strengthen the ways in which health research is gendered from conception of a research protocol to its publication.
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