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 […]
The Advancing Equity-Based Pandemic Preparedness Through Intersectional Analysis project was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Catalyst Grant: CPHO’s Report 2021 – Future of Public Health. The project aims to draw on learnings from the COVID-19 response to better understand public policy opportunities and challenges related to mitigating the unequal effects of health […]
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 […]
Abstract Background Based on a feminist approach, we analyzed the experiences of workplace bullying suffered by women front-line healthcare professionals dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. We start from studies that show that women make up 70% of the global health workforce, 85% in the area of nursing, and 90% in the case of social care […]
Abstract Random digit dial surveys with mobile phones risk under-representation of women. To address this, we compare the characteristics of women recruited directly with those of women recruited through referrals from male household members. The referral process improves representation of vulnerable groups, such as young women, the asset poor, and those living in areas with […]
The COVID-19 pandemic refocused the world to the lack of attention to gender gaps and gender-related vulnerabilities in the face of epidemics. However, while research dating back to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and earlier has documented what are the gaps and what needs to be done, there are fewer examples of tools on HOW to integrate […]
Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersectional crisis of social […]
Monkeypox vaccination for sex workers: Evidence to inform equity-based responses BACKGROUND On July 23, 2022, the World Health Organization declared the global monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak a public health emergency of international concern at a time when over 16,000 cases were reported in 75 countries and territories. As of August 31, 2022, the number of […]
Pandemic preparedness and COVID-19 response indicators focus on public health outcomes (such as infections, case fatalities, and vaccination rates), health system capacity, and/or the effects of the pandemic on the economy, yet this avoids more political questions regarding how responses were mobilized. Pandemic preparedness country rankings have been called into question due to their inability […]
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