Women in Global Health—Germany network

Ludwig, Sabine; Dhatt, Roopa; Kickbusch, Ilona

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(18)31205-4

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“…The resources included conferences (n = 4, 12.90%) [17][18][19][20]; supplemental resource to a conference (n = 1, 3.23%) [21]; a certificate program (n = 1, 3.23%) [22]; coursework (n = 2, 6.45%) [23][24][25]; stand-alone documents (n = 8, 25.81%) [8,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31]; single-focus programs (n = 1, 3.23%); and multicomponent programs (n = 14, 45.16%). Most resources (n = 20, 64.52%) did not have a specific global health focus area.…”

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“…Most resources (n = 20, 64.52%) did not have a specific global health focus area. Ten resources (32.23%) identified women first authors [3,8,9,27,[30][31][32][33][34][35], and of those, nine (29.03%) were also affiliated with institutions in high-income countries [3,8,9,27,[30][31][32][33][34][35]. As far as time commitments are concerned, most resources were not time bound (n = 18, 58.06%).…”

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“…We found one single-focus program called the Alliance-HSG Publication Mentorship Program, a sixmonth program for women working on health policy and systems research (HPSR) [9], but most resources (n = 14, 45.16%) featured multiple components [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44].…”

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A Scoping Review on Resources, Tools, and Programs to Support Women’s Leadership in Global Health: What Is Available, What Works, and How Do We Know?

Chung¹,

El‐Harakeh²,

Weinberg³

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Background: The unequal representation of women in global health leadership is a prevalent issue laterally across global health fields and vertically down experience levels. Although women compose much of the workforce, gender-based barriers prevent female talent from filling their appropriate leadership roles, which funnels unique expertise and problem-solving skills on a diversity of health topics out of positions of leadership. Currently, many calls to action have been proposed to raise awareness of the lack of women’s global health leadership, with Women in Global Health as one of the more prominent movements. This paper evaluates how the priorities and strategies for leadership training and development set forth by such movements have changed the landscape of available programs and resources for women in global health, based on availability, success, and evaluation. Objectives: This manuscript maps existing programs and resources that support women’s leadership in global health and describes available evaluations and documented outcomes. Methods: We used a dual approach of a peer-reviewed and gray literature search to build a comprehensive list of existing programs and resources designed to support women’s leadership in global health. Out of 54 items included for full-text review and 22 gray literature items screened for inclusion, a total of 31 resources were processed in the final extraction. We used descriptive quantitative analysis for categorical and binary variables, while qualitative data from evaluations were analyzed for outcomes. Findings: Resources were in the form of conferences, supplemental resources to conferences, certificate programs, coursework, stand-alone documents, single-focus programs, and mostly multicomponent programs. Most resources did not have a global health focus area, and a third of the total resources identified women first authors from predominantly high-income countries. About half of the resources mention mentorship and networking as activities incorporated as part of the resource. Over half of the resources did not have a target audience, and most resources were free to users. While there is a lack of consistent and meaningful evaluation of the resources, the available captured metrics of success were described as the number of career-advancing opportunities after using the resources. Examples of opportunities include enrollment in graduate school, receiving academic promotions, participating in internships, presenting at conferences, and publications. Conclusion: While the supply of existing programming and resources to advance women’s leadership in the global health field is limited in terms of quantity, it is rich in diverse formats, content, and implementation. This scoping review supports the notion that empowered female leadership in global health requires a complementary support system that encourages the unique needs and talents of female leaders. Such a support system needs inclusive targeting regardless of experience level, academic degree, or location. Furthermore, evaluations of resources will be critical in maintaining meaningful interventions that effectively dismantle the infrastructures that continue to limit the success of women leaders in global health.

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A Scoping Review on Resources, Tools, and Programs to Support Women’s Leadership in Global Health: What Is Available, What Works, and How Do We Know?

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El‐Harakeh²,

Weinberg³

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“…Scholars have discussed feminist approaches to global health and gender parity in recent years (e.g., Ludwig et al, 2018). Future studies of DDH would benefit from a feminist lens as well (Table 1) (Barad, 2007;Haraway, 1988;Ö zdemir, 2019c;Springer, 2020;Wade, 2020).…”

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Digital Is Political: Why We Need a Feminist Conceptual Lens on Determinants of Digital Health

Özdemir

2021

OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

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Digital health is a rapidly emerging field that offers several promising potentials: health care delivery remotely, in urban and rural areas, in any time zone, and in times of pandemics and ecological crises. Digital health encompasses electronic health, computing science, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, to name but a few technical components. Digital health is part of a vision for systems medicine. The advances in digital health have been, however, uneven and highly variable across communities, countries, medical specialties, and societal contexts. This article critically examines the determinants of digital health (DDH). DDH describes and critically responds to inequities and differences in digital health theory and practice across people, places, spaces, and time. DDH is not limited to studying variability in design and access to digital technologies. DDH is situated within a larger context of the political determinants of health. Hence, this article presents an analysis of DDH, as seen through political science, and the feminist studies of technology and society. A feminist lens would strengthen systems-driven, historically and critically informed governance for DDH. This would be a timely antidote against unchecked destructive/extractive governance narratives (e.g., technocracy and patriarchy) that produce and reproduce the health inequities. Moreover, feminist framing of DDH can help cultivate epistemic competence to detect and reject false equivalences in how we understand the emerging digital world(s). False equivalence, very common in the current pandemic and post-truth era, is a type of flawed reasoning in decision-making where equal weight is given to arguments with concrete material evidence, and those that are conjecture, untrue, or unjust. A feminist conceptual lens on DDH would help remedy what I refer to in this article as ''the normative deficits'' in science and technology policy that became endemic with the rise of neoliberal governance since the 1980s in particular. In this context, it is helpful to recall the feminist writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Le Guin posed ''what if?'' questions, to break free from oppressive narratives such as patriarchy and re-imagine technology futures. It is time to envision an emancipated, equitable, and more democratic world by asking ''what if we lived in a feminist world?'' That would be truly awesome, for everyone, women and men, children, youth, and future generations, to steer digital technologies and the new field of DDH toward broadly relevant, ethical, experiential, democratic, and socially responsive health outcomes.

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“…The movement drives change by mobilizing a diverse group of emerging women health leaders, advocating for governments and global health policymakers to meet the pledges made on gender equity, and they commit to transforming their institutions by holding those leaders to account. The first chapters of WGH were founded in Europe ( 20 , 21 ) and since had regular meetings to exchange information on strategies and activities and provide mutual support.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on the private and professional lives of highly educated women working in global health in Europe—A qualitative study

Hoffmann

Schneider²,

Wannous³

et al. 2023

Front. Glob. Womens Health

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BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to a deepening of existing inequalities and a rollback of achievements made in gender equality. Women in Global Health (WGH) is a global movement that aims to achieve gender equality in health and increase female leadership in global health. Here, the aim was to understand how the pandemic affects the private and professional lives of women working in global health in different European countries. Suggestions for future pandemic preparedness including how gender perspectives should be integrated into pandemic preparedness and how a women's network such as WGH helped them to overcome the impact of the pandemic were explored.MethodsQualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted in September 2020 with a sample size of nine highly educated women with a mean age of 42.1 years from the different WGH European chapters. The participants were informed of the study and were formally asked for their consent. The interviews were held in English via an online videoconference platform and lasted 20–25 min each. The interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was conducted according to Mayring Qualitative Content Analysis using MAXQDA.ResultsThe pandemic has both positive and negative effects on the professional and private lives of women. It led to an increased workload and stress as well as pressure to publish on COVID-19-related themes. Increased childcare and household responsibilities represented a double burden. The available space was limited if other family members were also working from home. Positive aspects included more time for family or partners and reduced travel. The participants report on perceived gender differences in the experience of the pandemic. International cooperation is considered to be a key factor for future pandemic preparedness. Being part of a women's network such as WGH was perceived as being very supportive in difficult situations during the pandemic.ConclusionThis study provides unique insights into the experiences of women working in global health in different European countries. The COVID-19 pandemic influences their professional and private lives. Perceived gender differences are reported and suggest the need for integrating gender perspectives in pandemic preparedness. Networks for women, such as WGH, can facilitate the exchange of information in crises and provide women with professional and personal support.

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Women in Global Health—Germany network

Cited by 5 publications

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A Scoping Review on Resources, Tools, and Programs to Support Women’s Leadership in Global Health: What Is Available, What Works, and How Do We Know?

A Scoping Review on Resources, Tools, and Programs to Support Women’s Leadership in Global Health: What Is Available, What Works, and How Do We Know?

Digital Is Political: Why We Need a Feminist Conceptual Lens on Determinants of Digital Health

Impact of COVID-19 on the private and professional lives of highly educated women working in global health in Europe—A qualitative study

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A Scoping Review on Resources, Tools, and Programs to Support Women&rsquo;s Leadership in Global Health: What Is Available, What Works, and How Do We Know?

A Scoping Review on Resources, Tools, and Programs to Support Women&rsquo;s Leadership in Global Health: What Is Available, What Works, and How Do We Know?

Digital Is Political: Why We Need a Feminist Conceptual Lens on Determinants of Digital Health

Impact of COVID-19 on the private and professional lives of highly educated women working in global health in Europe—A qualitative study

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A Scoping Review on Resources, Tools, and Programs to Support Women’s Leadership in Global Health: What Is Available, What Works, and How Do We Know?

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