Data Impact
For over two decades, there have been conversations on and commitments to addressing gender inequities in global health. However, these commitments have not brought the necessary change to the structural and systemic drivers of gender inequities. This think piece by Dr. Anju Malhotra, UNU-IIGH, reflects on the reasons and provides three potential action points that […]
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Cameroon is a West-Central African country with a population of approximately 27 million people. The current male to female sex ratio is close to 1:1. Between 2000 and 2019, mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among women in Cameroon increased from about 27% to the current 38%. NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and neurological diseases, […]
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The Philippines Magna Carta of Women, enacted in August 2009, stands as a local commitment to the provisions in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Considering the inequitable cultural norms and obstacles faced by Filipina women in social and economic advancement, the Magna Carta of Women affirms the […]
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The primary objective of this activity, as part of the ConVERGE project, was to improve the processes for monitoring and ensuring the quality of vital statistics in Colombia by developing a Power BI dashboard to track the quantities and frequencies of birth and death variables. In conjunction with DANE, a proposal for multi-phase strengthening was […]
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This seminar first aired live on April 21st, 2022 Moderator: Joseph Ali, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health Speakers: This seminar provides a framework for integrating gender into health policy development using the WHO gender assessment scale. Speakers discuss examples of data to policy efforts using a gender lens from […]
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In 2021, the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) worked with five UN agencies that operate under a health mandate to document and analyze what has worked institutionally and programmatically to promote gender equality in health over the last 25 years. Through a collaborative practice-based learning approach, the project studied 14 cases […]
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