by Gendro | Nov 12, 2021 | Events
12 November 2021 | Organiser : Open Think Tank Network (OpenTTN)
In November 2021, a forum was held in Geneva that marked the official launch of OpenTTN. For three days, participants from all over Europe came together to discuss foreign policy issues in a participatory format with high-ranking experts and speakers.
The participants had the opportunity to celebrate the success of the joint publication of the OpenTTN on feminist foreign policy. The opening event was attended by: Marie-Claire Graf, YOUNGO Global Focal Point for the UNFCCC, Ambassador Thomas Greminger, head of the Geneva Center for Security Policy, Shirin Heidari, Founder of Gendro and Senior Consultant on WHO’s Gender, Equity and Human Rights Team, Tamara Mawhinney, Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in Geneva, Maria Sokolova, TradeExperettes
During the subsequent sessions over the weekend, the participants not only thought about the internal structure of OpenTTN, but also analyzed the most important foreign policy trends and considered new projects for cooperation between the various think tanks.
by Gendro | Oct 5, 2021 | Events
5 October 2021 | Organiser : GE Academy
Trainers Dr. Shirin Heidari, founding president of GENDRO, along with Cristina Dragomir from Constanta Maritime University, who served as an Associate Professor, provided an overview of the main imbalances and biases regarding HR management in research and academia during the session. These imbalances encompassed vertical and horizontal segregation, the gender pay gap, and issues related to international mobility. Participants were sensitized about unconscious bias and were encouraged to challenge allegedly objective and gender-neutral career enhancement criteria. The trainers provided examples of measures aimed at tackling these biases and emphasized the importance of building capacity for self-reflection and enhancing HRM processes.
Event recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNdX_KY9n7o&ab_channel=GenderEqualityAcademyEU
by Gendro | Jun 17, 2021 | Events
The panel was chaired by Shirin Heidari from GENDRO, and the presenters included Tracey Goodman from WHO and Lavanya Vijayasingham from UNU-IIGH. Jean Munro from GAVI moderated the discussion, while the panelists included Apoorva Mandavilli, a journalist from The New York Times, Prof Noni MacDonald from Dalhousie University, Canada, and Prof Saad Omer from Yale University, USA. Amidst the unprecedented scale and speed of vaccine research and development, and the mammoth task of ‘leaving no one behind’ in the global deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, there was a need to ensure that critical sex- and gender dimensions were not ‘deprioritized’ in evidence generation, policy decision-making, and communication initiatives.
Stronger considerations of sex and gender factors in these areas could contribute to better science and innovation, prevent avoidable harm, build public understanding and trust in a timely manner, and ultimately improve immunization coverage. Some key areas that required attention and action included the persistent oversight of sex and gender dimensions in clinical trials and other vaccine-related research, nuanced analysis of post-market surveillance and pharmacovigilance data that could inform sex-based differences in the frequency or severity of adverse events, the lack of data in specific populations such as pregnant and lactating women in the initial phases of vaccine roll-out in some countries, sex and gender dimensions of vaccine confidence, acceptability, and uptake, and transparent and accurate science reporting to clearly communicate the relevant sex and gender dimensions to the lay audience.
Learn more here:
Presentation 1: Critical sex and gender considerations for equitable research, development and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines
Presentation 2: SDG3 GAP Gender working group /UNU-IIGH Guidance note and checklist for tackling gender-related barriers to equitable COVID-19 vaccine deployment
Event recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=825vOFeqbQ4&ab_channel=UNU-IIGH
by Gendro | Jun 15, 2021 | Events
This webinar offered an overview of the purpose of Sex and Gender Based Analysis (SGBA), its application to public health, and provided an overview of some key examples from a forthcoming book on SBGA in Public Health (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783…) edited by Jacqueline Gahagan, Professor of Health.
Promotion came from Dalhousie University and Mary Bryson, Senior Associate Dean, Administration, Faculty Affairs & Innovation and Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia.
Session speakes included Jacqueline Gahagan, PhD, Full Professor, Health Promotion Division, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University Shirin Heidari, PhD, Founder of GENDRO Sizulu Moyo, PhD, Research Director, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa Cara Tannenbaum, MD, Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Gender and Health.
Learn more here: https://www.cpha.ca/sites/default/fil… https://www.cpha.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/webinars/2021-06-15-sgba_webinar_deck.pdf
Event recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HCRnlLlUY&ab_channel=CanadianPublicHealthAssociation
by Gendro | Jun 8, 2021 | Events
8 June 2021 | Organiser : ABEC Brazil
ABEC Brazil, a Diversity Equality and Inclusion Policy (DEI) supporter, invites to the webinar Sex and Gender Equity in Research and Publication, with Shirin Heidari, President of GENDRO, dedicated to promoting gender and gender equity in research. Shirin will present the motivations for considering sex and gender in research, provide an overview of the SAGER (Sex and Gender Equity in Research/EASE) guidelines, and indicate concrete steps to support authors, reviewers and editors to improve sex reporting and gender in academic publication.
Event recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5XIxYee5rQ&ab_channel=RobertoABECBrasil-DOI
by Gendro | May 11, 2021 | Events
11 May 2021 | Organiser: EASE
The speaker for the workshop was Dr. Shirin Heidari, President of GENDRO and Founding Chair of the EASE Gender Policy Committee. The workshop provided an overview of the poor reporting of sex and gender dimensions in research published in academic journals, resulting in a gender knowledge gap that is increasingly recognized. To address this issue, the EASE Gender Policy Committee developed the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines, which have been adopted by numerous journals and publishers and translated into several languages.
Co-organized with GENDRO, the workshop aimed to present the rationale for considering sex and gender in research, offer an overview of the SAGER guidelines, and provide concrete steps for authors, reviewers, and editors to enhance gender reporting in scholarly research and publications.
Event recording: https://ease.org.uk/product/ease-webinar-sex-and-gender-considerations-in-research/
