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 | Aug 20, 2020 | Events
August 20, 2020 |Organiser: Gender Summit
The primary goal of GS19 was to bring together key player organisations that are actively advancing knowledge and practice for effective implementation of SDG targets, and identify topics where gender is not given the priority it should. Example organisations that are being targeted include: research performing members of the UN Sustainable Solutions Network (SDSN); members of the International Science Council (ISC); multilateral institutions such as OECD and UNESCO; funders of research for development such as the International Development Research Centre in Canada; and capacity building programmes such as the collaborative GREAT (Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation) project involving Cornell (USA) and Makerere (Uganda) universities.
The target participants are acknowledged technical and gender experts and practitioners from across the different global regional familiar with SDG-related themes as well as with gender knowledge and experience relevant to different SDG targets.
Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs: This session presents latest advances in research methods to understand when, why and how biological (sex) and socio-cultural (gender) characteristics of studied populations, and in their ecological contexts, impact on research results and differentiate quality of research outcomes for women/females and men/males.
Event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8e4Ygr5avY&ab_channel=GenderSummit
by Gendro | Jun 15, 2020 | Events
June 15, 2020 |Organisers: GENDRO and CERAH Geneve
In her new book ‘The Uncounted’ Sara L.M. Davis looks at how politics shapes data in the context of another ongoing pandemic: HIV and AIDS and how the same politics are shaping data in the current COVID19 crisis. “Health data is never neutral,” says Davis. “Politics shapes how data is used, what gets counted and what – or who– is left uncounted”.
Global aid agencies and governments use health data to set priorities, focusing resources in a shrinking list of countries. At the same time, many governments deny marginalized groups exist, so their data is never collected. Since no data is gathered about their needs, life-saving services are not funded, and the lack of data reinforces the denial.
As a result of this and other data paradoxes, the book shows that in the global race to reach the end of AIDS, the world is slipping off track. The Uncounted explores this through interviews with leaders of global health agencies and civil society activists, ethnographic research, analysis of gaps in policies and mathematical models, and the author’s experience as an activist and official. It shows why empowering communities to gather their own data could be key to ending inequalities in healthcare.
Book Reviews
Davis vividly shows that not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. As an anthropologist, a human rights activist and a former Global Fund official, Davis is an insider and an outsider, drawing a rich, nuanced and compelling portrait of the HIV response today. Joseph Amon, Ph.D., MSPH – Clinical Professor and Director of the Office of Global Health, Drexel University
In The Uncounted, Davis has successfully synthesized the complex decisions guiding bilateral and multilateral funding agencies in the HIV response. Given her own experience and that the book is informed by systematic reviews and key informant interviews, it is accurate while managing to provide a humanized narrative to international development. Stefan Baral, MD – Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMW5deLM3RI&ab_channel=GenevaGraduateInstitute
by Gendro | Jun 14, 2020 | Podcast
14 June 2020
How are inequality and discrimination shaping data about COVID-19, and who is being left invisible and uncounted? On the launch of her new book on data and human rights, Sara (Meg) Davis speaks to social worker and rights activist Jolovan Wham in Singapore, who describes how thousands of migrant workers are being detained in overcrowded dorms, and were missed by the official mobile contact tracing app. In Geneva, Dr. Shirin Heidari (GENDRO) and Marina Smelyanskaya (Stop TB Partnership) address the global need for feminist principles and respect for human rights to gather data on COVID-19. Davis’ new book, The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health is available from Cambridge University Press.
Listen here: https://megdavisconsulting.com/2020/06/14/right-on-4-uncounted-in-covid19-data/
