As part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ commitment to its Data for Health initiative, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has received $3.6 million in renewed funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies to expand gender equity work.
A new website from the Data for Health Initiative’s Gender Equity Unit connects global health communities with free resources to incorporate gender equity in health data.
Dr. Tahilin Sanchez Karver, assistant scientist, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Gender Equity Unit, received a Delta grant for, “Leveling the Playing Field: Development and Evaluation of an Open Access, Online Course on Gender Equity in Health Data”.
Bloomberg Philanthropies granted researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health an award to expand their current scope of work within the Data for Health (D4H) Initiative.
This presentation by Dr. Michelle Kaufman and Kate Wright summarizes the activities of the Gender Equity Unit, provides case studies of capacity building to improve gender data gaps, and briefly summarize research studies with countries wanting to ensure their health data is moving towards integrating gender equity.
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