ABOUT THE EVENT
It’s clear that COVID-19 exacerbates multiple and intersecting vulnerabilities, and those at the margins – predominantly women and girls– are further marginalised. Yet across the health sector, sex and gender are still not incorporated in clinical studies and gender bias continues to undermine healthcare access. Women contribute disproportionately as health workers and home-carers, but not as health policy leaders.
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What's it about?
The gendered fault lines in the health sector are now glaringly exposed by COVID-19. While women’s movements have transformed policy in other sectors, technical biases and professional hierarchies combine to exclude women and young people’s voices. The urgency of COVID-19 provides a strategic opportunity for galvanising a multi-stakeholder ecosystem for the feminist transformation of the health sector. Dialogue before, during and after the session will be sustained in partnership with stakeholders co-organising the session.
Key Points of the Generation Equality Forum 2021
- Feminist organising and women’s participation in COVID decision-making
- Addressing healthcare access barriers and vaccine deployment
- Ending sex bias in COVID science and R&D
- Clear priority areas and opportunities for engagement
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Khalila Kellz Mbowe (Moderator)
Founder and CEO of Unleashed Africa Social Ventures, Khalila works on sustainable solutions for youth-led development in Africa. She is a Tanzanian creative performance director, avid communicator and social entrepreneur. She speaks on various national and international platforms on the creative economy, gender, youth development and gender and volunteers extensively.
Chantal Umuhoza (Guest Speaker)
A Rwandan Feminist activist with over 15 years’ experience working on sexual and reproductive justice, gender equality and socio-economic justice through research, advocacy, policy development and movement building. Chantal is a member of RESURJ, an alliance of younger Global south feminists and the founder of SPECTRA, a space for Rwandan feminists seeking to contribute to transformative change.
Dr Natalia Kanem (Guest Speaker)
UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UNFPA, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, with more than 30 years of strategic leadership experience in preventive medicine, public and reproductive health, social justice and philanthropy. Dr Kanem holds a medical degree from Columbia University and a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Washington.
Prof Dr Sabine Oertelt-Prigione (Guest Speaker)
Physician and organisational consultant specialised in internal medicine, public health and sex- and gender-sensitive medicine. Prof Dr Sabine holds the Chair for Gender in Primary and Transmural Care at Radboud University and the professorship of sex- and gender-sensitive medicine at Bielefeld University. She developed the first international database about sex and gender-specific research.
Watch the full webinar HERE.