COVID-19 & the need for gender responsive pandemic preparedness and response plans

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Prof Morgan stresses the need for gender responsive emergency preparedness and response mechanisms. COVID-19 is not gender neutral but the global policy created to respond to pandemics is gender neutral by not recognising differential effects downstream of primary effects, on the long term effects, which are overwhelmingly worse for women, as well as intersecting gender characteristics and in particular race. COVID-19 has given rise to many important projects to enable real time, multi-faceted gender analysis of preparedness and response mechanisms. A Gender and COVID-19 Working Group was created to connect researchers in ways not done before.

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Rosemary Morgan, PhD
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Assistant Scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of International Health

 

 

Rosemary Morgan, PhD, is an Assistant Scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of International Health. She has expertise in gender, gender analysis, and intersectionality. She is a co-PI on a project exploring the gendered effects of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, DRC, and Brazil supported by the Gates Foundation, an advisor on a CIHR funded project exploring the gendered effects of COVID-19 in Canada, the UK, China, and Hong Kong, and co-coordinates a Gender and COVID-19 Working Group. In addition, Dr Morgan currently leads the Sex and Gender Analysis Core for the NIH funded Sex and Age Differences in Immunity to Influenza (SADII) project and works as a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) advisor for the UK Partnerships for Health Systems programme (UKPHS).

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