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The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the deep inequities that undermine global health, especially gender inequities impacting female front line health and care workers. In 2020, the WHO's (World Health Organisation) designated Year of the Nurse and Midwife, only few health and care workers (many of whom are women) have safe and decent working conditions, appropriate protection and equal and timely pay.

This is why the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies at the Graduate Institute of Geneva is hosting a webinar titled "MASKED HEROINES? BUILDING RESILIENCE BEGINS WITH A GENDER-EQUITABLE HEALTH WORKFORCE". On Friday, 22 May 2020 between 15:00 - 16:30 the following questions will be addressed: 

  • How many decision makers in health systems are women?
  • Do we collect sufficient data and evidence to understand the implications of COVID-19 on female health workers?

Speakers in this webinar will share the perspectives of female health workers during this pandemic, and review lessons learnt from previous large-scale outbreaks – how health systems lose when gender equality is ignored, what can be done better, and how we all may gain by applying a gender lens.

This event is co-sponsored by the Global Health Centre, Women in Global Health, and GENDRO.

For more info and to register to this webinar, please click here.

To discuss this topic in the COVID-19 Forum, please click here.

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