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Gender and Global Health
The new Gender and Global Health Program (GGH) at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) focuses on gender in
scholarship relevant to global health. This program will advance an agenda that complements University of Michigan's Global Health Research
and Training Initiative (UM-GHRT). The UM-GHRT funds will be used to co-sponsor some of the events (see below) initiated by the GGH program.
Simultaneously, the GGH Program will ensure that a gender perspective is introduced into the research activities that are of importance to the
UM-GHRT program. In addition, GGH aims to strengthen IRWG's links to the new Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute and the International Institute.
In the upcoming two years, the IRWG Gender and Global Health Program aims to:
- Organize a planning meeting on "Gender, Health and Work: Rethinking the Nexus between Reproduction and Occupational Health in the
Gendered Context of Export-Led Development." This meeting will bring together a small group of international scholars with UM faculty
and students to define a joint cross-disciplinary call for research. This project will build upon the October 2004 workshop hosted by
the International Institute entitled Reproductive Rights of Globalized Workers: Integration of Labor Standards and Reproductive Health in Export-Processing Factories
and integrate the scholarship and networks of several UM faculty.
- Host a seminar series featuring invited papers focused on International Health and Gender and bring to campus 6-8 national
and international scholars. This series will be co-sponsored by the International Institute and have the objective of producing an
edited volume.
- Co-sponsor a planned major symposium on Environment and Global Health, using resources to include a panel tentatively titled
"Developing a Gender Perspective." This project will build on two major UM initiatives in South Africa and China.
- Co-sponsor a global health research project that focuses on issues of gender.
- Provide a pre-dissertation travel fellowship for a student who plans to develop dissertation relevant to gender and global health.
The program is directed by Siobán Harlow (Epidemiology). For more information, please contact her at (harlow@isr.umich.edu).
