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Shirin Heidari, Els Torreele, Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu, Sharifah Sekalala, Naomi Burke-Shyne, Gabrielle Landry Chappuis October 03, 2023 From HIV and influenza, to Zika virus, Ebola virus disease, and most recently COVID-19, the gender implications of disease outbreaks...

Ophira Ginsburg, Verna Vanderpuye, Ann Marie Beddoe, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Freddie Bray, Carlo Caduff, Narjust Florez, Ibtihal Fadhil, Nazik Hammad, Shirin Heidari, Ishu Kataria, Somesh Kumar, Erica Liebermann, Jenna Moodley, Miriam Mutebi, Deborah Mukherji, Rachel...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

Shirin Heidari, Alice Palmer-Ross, Tracey Goodman Vaccines – November 15, 2021 Sex and gender have implications for COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and adverse effects from the vaccine. As vaccination is one of the key responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital that...

Sanne A E Peters, Thomas F Babor, Robyn N Norton, Janine A Clayton, Pavel V Ovseiko, Cara Tannenbaum, Shirin Heidari BMJ Global Health – November 8, 2021 This year marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of the Sex And Gender Equity in Research (SAGER)...

Peter Baker, Clara Alemann, Stephen Burrell, Derek M. Griffith, Shirin Heidari, Jasmine Kelland, Arush Lal, Sushmita Mukherjee BMJ Global Health - April 24, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has refocused attention on many health inequalities, not least those related to...