Seminar Recording: Key Ingredients for Driving Gender Equity in Health Data

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Seminar Recording: Key Ingredients for Driving Gender Equity in Health Data

1 hour 29 minutes

This seminar covers how to apply five key ingredients to drive gender equity in health data collection and use by studying learnings from gender equity efforts in the United Nations in four health-related fields.

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Key takeaways

The United Nations University Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) worked with five UN agencies to analyze what has worked to promote gender equality in health over the past 25 years.
The five key elements critical to leveraging opportunities and creating substantial and sustainable gains in gender equality within health programs and institutional structures were identified as the powers of leaders and gender experts, institutional structures, feminist civil society, the collective, and the power of evidence and data.
Most gender data mainstreaming efforts today are centered around women’s health issues, including sexual and reproductive health. Gender mainstreaming efforts can be integrated into additional health areas - such as non-communicable diseases, adolescent health, cause of death records, and disabilities - that could have a lasting effect on the health of women and gender minorities.
It is critical to collect and analyze data separately for women, people who are non-binary, and men because of varying access to care, different clinical manifestations of disease, different risk factors that affect disease exposure, and differences in health-seeking behaviors among these three gendered groups.

This seminar first aired live on February 25, 2022.

Moderator: Dr. Michelle Kaufman, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Speakers:

Dr. Johanna Riha, Research Fellow in Gender and Health Hub, UNU-IIGH, Malaysia

Dr. Purna Sen, Visiting Professor, Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University

Dr. Rohini Prabha Pande, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank, Africa

Data that is disaggregated by sex and reflects societal gender issues such as roles, relations, and inequalities, has the power to help identify health disparities, improve health data systems, and influence key policy decision-making in countries and regions. Gender equitable data creates opportunities to minimize biases that may incompletely inform health policy by accounting for stereotypes, social norms, and other cultural factors.

According to United Nations University, the five key ingredients for driving gender equality are: evidence, feminist civil society, collaborative partners, leaders and gender experts, and institutional structure. This seminar covers how to apply these ingredients to drive gender equity in health data collection and use by studying learnings from gender equity efforts in four health-related fields: gender-based violence, femicide, COVID-19, and non-communicable diseases.

Gender integration is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs.

UN ECOSOC

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AfricaCOVID-19GBVGender BasicsGlobalMalaysiaNCDs

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