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.The McGill Summer Institutes is now offering several unique courses in partnership with Results Canada and the University of Ottawa.
The Gender Equality and Global Health online course (June 13-15, 2023) offered with the University of Ottawa takes a participatory approach to building global health practitioners’ skills to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate gender transformative programmes.
Faculty from Bruyère Research Institute’s Centre for Equity and Effectiveness 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.
For more information and to register, click here.
