This opinion piece was originally published in Queerbeat and was informed by Sangath’s study on ‘Trans-affirmative mental health care provision during public health emergencies: Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic in India’ which was funded by a Gender and Public Health Emergencies small grant. People from the margins have often been deemed unworthy in the annals […]
Public health emergencies – such as pandemics and health crises arising out conflict, and emergencies rising out of the defunding of global health programmes – require a specific gender lens. Previous work highlights this, including Gavi’s gender checklist for vaccine deployment and Matahari’s COVID-19 and gender report. With support from the Gender in Public Health […]
In this blog Leslie Njingang explores the hidden threat of the misdiagnosis of Long Covid due to bias around race, ethnicity, religion, gender, weight, age, and more, and looks at recommendations for addressing this implicit bias and misdiagnosis. In the past year alone, the number of people who have had Long Covid in the United […]
On the 28th of May, we celebrate ten years of Menstrual Hygiene Day. It is a time to reflect on the success of the movement, as well as galvanise action for this still largely neglected and under-funded area of sexual and reproductive health, rights and bodily autonomy. In 2022, the 50th session of the Human Rights […]
We sat down with Edith B Milanzi from FemAnalytica to learn more about their six month project to investigate the health related gender-specific challenges and impacts faced by survivors of Cyclone Freddy through interviews, surveys and focus group discussions. Their project was recently awarded one of our small grants for work focused on research, advocacy […]
Join us for the Gender and Public Health Emergencies Working Group webinar, taking place this March, with exciting speakers! All members welcome! Wednesday, 13 March 2024 • 3pm GMT/ 4pm WAT/ 10am EST Come and hear from our presenters, discussing issues related to gender and public health emergencies, ask questions, and meet others working in […]
We are pleased to introduce the five projects that have been awarded small grants for their work focused on research, advocacy and programmatic interventions related to gender and public health emergencies. Launched late last year the GPHE working group scheme supports organisations working on aspects of gender and public health emergencies, with a focus on […]
Join us for the December Gender and Public Health Emergencies Working Group webinar, taking place this December, with exciting speakers! Friday, 15 December 2023 3pm GMT/ 4pm CET/ 10am EST All members welcome at the next Working Group Webinar, taking place in December! Come and hear from our presenters, discussing issues related to gender and […]
Gender Working Group
We meet online every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and public health emergencies.
We meet online every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and public health emergencies.
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
