Online only. Course will be live approximately 8:30am-3:30pm (Montreal time) each day June 13-15, 2023. Live content will be recorded.
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a healthy, peaceful, and prosperous world. A person’s gender affects their ability to reduce their exposure to risks of poor health, access healthcare, adopt health seeking behaviours, and achieve good health and wellbeing. To be effective, global health programmes must adopt a gender integration approach that systematically works to reduce gender-related barriers to good health and wellbeing and advance gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment.
This introductory course takes a participatory approach to building global health practitioners’ skills to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate gender transformative programmes. The course will follow a typical project cycle (Figure 1), taking participants through key entry points for gender integration at each stage. Faculty from Canadian and global private and public sector institutions (e.g., academia, NGOs, government) will share their real-world experiences in gender integration in global health programmes, and case studies will cover various sub-sectors, such as immunization, nutrition, and malaria. In addition to gender analysis, participants will learn how to apply an intersectional lens to gender-transformative approaches, enhancing their understanding and promotion of social inclusion and the social determinants of health. Participants will be encouraged to share their own experiences with gender integration through group work and short assignments.
Alison Riddle, MSc, PhD(c)
PhD candidate, School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa
Research Associate at the Bruyère Research Institute
Independent Gender Equality and Global Health Consultant
Carol Vlassoff, PhD
Adjunct Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa
Adjunct Professor at the Bruyère Research Institute
Each session will be a combination of lecture/presentation by faculty to ground the discussions in research evidence and experience, followed by application through participatory exercises in breakout sessions and group activities. Case studies and assigned readings will help to reinforce key concepts.
This course is intended for global health practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in Canada and abroad who are interested in an introductory skills building course in gender integration. The course is designed for participants who have little to no previous experience in this area.
Maximum of 100 participants.
Starting May 23, 2023: Registration closes when the course is full, or one day before the course is scheduled to begin. If you want to see if it is possible to register after the course is closed please email the Summer Institute team.
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février 23, 2023
Date d’échéance:
mai 23, 2023
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McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health
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