Webinar: Rural women and addressing inequities in health service coverage

24 February 2022 14:00 – 15:30 CET
Virtual

Greeting by Chairs and links to International Women’s Day 2022: Theadora Swift Koller, Senior Technical Advisor, Health Equity, and Evelyn Boy-Mena, Technical Officer for Gender, World Health Organization/HQ

Panel:

 Improving sexual and reproductive health services and GBV services for disadvantaged rural women – Majaliwa Marwa, Assistant Representative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Tanzania Country Office

Improving access to nutrition-related services amongst rural women –Ahmed Raza, Nutrition and Food Systems Officer, Nutrition Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Tackling inequities in access to cancer prevention, early detection and treatment experienced by rural women globally – Chemtai Mungo, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina (USA)

Provision of intercultural approaches to cancer services for rural Indigenous women in the United States – Marc Emerson, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (USA)

Capacity building of rural family doctors on gender responsive service delivery – Ozden Gokdemir, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Izmir University of Economics / Turkey

Closing remarks: Bruce Chater, Chair, World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) Working Party on Rural Practice 

 

 

  
 

Thursday 24 February 2022
14h00-15h30 CET

Meeting ID:  983 9330 2928 

Password: W2022-m3n 

 

 

* This Webinar is a pre-event linked to International Women's Day 2022 and a part of a WHO series on “tackling rural health inequities”, convened under the umbrella of World Health Day 2021 on “Health Equity”. It is organized by the WHO/HQ Gender, Equity and Human Rights Team, with external partners including WONCA’s Working Party on Rural Practice, OECD, and other agencies in the UN Inequalities Task Team (ITT) subgroup on rural poverty. The series runs from July 2021 to March 2022.