Workshop: "Trajectories of Gender in Global Health: Where are we going?"

Co-organised by the Key Area of Activities "Health" of the ZASB, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) and the Society, Gender and Health Unit of the Swiss TPH

Gender medicine, women's health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, the gender health gap: buzzwords are manifold in the various discourses relating to 'gender', 'women', 'health' and 'rights' on the global public health arena. How can community-based or action research contribute to our understanding of gendered aspects of health, and what can we learn from research with international stakeholders? What are the gaps identified? What the priorities?

This workshop shall provide an opportunity to engage critically with the various concepts and discourses around 'women', 'gender', 'health' and rights in the past, the present and the future. Themes may cover a wide range, such as the critical reflection of the on-stage global health discourse on the gender health gap and its importance for the global economy; revisiting the medicalization of women's bodies in view of the claims to more research in the field of gender medicine; or examining the gendered notions of feminist health research focusing on more-than-human care as in the context of microbiome research. Ongoing approaches in gender medicine with a focus on women's life stages such as menopause further challenge researchers to critically reflect their aims and practices, even more, if research is conducted in different areas of the world. Are we on the right track? Are our approaches enhancing gender equality? Above all, what do we mean when we talk about gender? Or health? And what may we be missing?

Please register here by 18 November 2024  here

This workshop is linked the symposium "Women and Gender in Global Health" at the Swiss TPH on 20 November 2024.

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