The relationship between globalization, health and gender was the focus of a symposium held June 20-22 at Yale.
Titled "Globalization and Health: the Gender Challenge," the event was sponsored by a consortium from the Divinity School, the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, and the Institution for Social & Policy Studies and its Bioethics Project.
The symposium speakers, who included academics and researchers hailing from 12 countries and six continents, examined how global restructuring can shape and determine life chances and life choices for women and men -- particularly how employment, trade, social movements, non-governmental organizations, cultural attitudes, existing gender relationships, governments and poverty pertain to health issues.
By analyzing global health challenges such as HIV/AIDS, the speakers focused on the very contradictory nature of the experiences of both women and men. In addition, participants examined the response of international organizations and international civil society to global restructuring as it pertains to health and issues of equity and fairness.
During the last day of the symposium, members from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research held a forum to discuss research priorities and gaps in order to inform the development of an international initiative aimed at developing policies for improving gender relations and providing ethical research and equity in health issues related to global restructuring.
The symposium received funding from many sources, including the Institute on Gender and Health, the Yale Institution for Social & Policy Studies, Office of the Provost, Wyeth Pharmaceutical Company, Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, and the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS.
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