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ESRC Seminar Series: Gender Health Equity: embracing local and global challenges to mainstreaming
The aim of the series is to enable debate and exchange on key challenges and dilemmas in gender mainstreaming in international health.
This seminar, 'Exchanging international experience on gender mainstreaming' will aim to explore synergies and tensions between the concepts and practice of gender mainstreaming in health amongst different institutional actors in the South and North and implications for international alliances for gender mainstreaming.
The seminar will be held on
Wednesday 4th March 2009, 10 am - 12 noon
in the Sherrington Lecture Theatre 1, Sherrington Building, Ashton Street http://www.liv.ac.uk/maps/precinctplan.htm
All are welcome, and there is no charge to attend.
The session will be chaired by Jude Robinson (Deputy Director, HACCRU) with opening comments from Sally Theobald (Senior Lecturer, LSTM), and speakers include:
Dr Nduku Kilonzo, Director, Liverpool VCT, Care & Treatment, Kenya. (Liverpool VCT, Care & Treatment is a Kenyan NGO that provides HIV counselling, care & ART treatment)
Dr Sarah Payne, Reader in Social Policy, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Dr Steve Robertson Reader in Men's Health, Centre for Men's Health, Leeds Metropolitan University
The meeting is hosted by the Gender and Health Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Public Health Division, School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences, HACCRU (Health and Community Care Research Unit), School of Sociology and Social Policy, CSRHM (Centre for Social Research in Health and Medicine), University of Liverpool
The seminar speakers will address the following questions
. How is gender mainstreaming in health conceptualised in specific contexts?
. What are the key elements of the practice of gender mainstreaming in these contexts?
. What are the key barriers and enablers to gender mainstreaming in these contexts?
. What kinds of strategies would further develop the concept and practice of gender mainstreaming in this these contexts?
. How far do the concept and practice of gender mainstreaming in these contexts serve a feminist agenda?
. How is knowledge and experience transferred and exchanged between north and south in both directions in these contexts?
. What kinds of alliances and networks internationally might support gender mainstreaming strategies?
Visit our webpage on:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/groups/gender_health.htm to learn more about the seminar series and the previous seminar: Responding to the changing context in International Health: Opportunities and challenges for gender mainstreaming.
Future seminars for your diaries:
Seminar 3: Widening feminisms: engaging with disability, ethnicity and sexuality (June/July 2009) will aim to unpack the implications for gender mainstreaming of debates and dilemmas in feminist thinking, including the emergence of a men's health movement and the interaction of gender with geography, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality.
The series will conclude with a fourth seminar aimed at developing a collaborative research agenda on gender mainstreaming in health internationally, immediately following Seminar 3, in June/ July 2009.
Dr Jude Robinson
Deputy Director of the Health and Community Care Research Unit,
Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences
Co-Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health and Medicine
http://www.liv.ac.uk/healthsciences/csrhm
Editor Medical Sociology online (MSo)
www.medicalsociologyonline.org
HaCCRU,
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University of Liverpool.
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Telephone: +44 (0) 151 794 5288/ 5503
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