Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Gender, Sex and Health

We are proposing to hold an international, interdisciplinary symposium "Gender Equity in Health: From Evidence to Action". The symposium will begin by focusing on understanding of the impact of the intersection of gender, socioeconomic position, ethnicity, place, and migration on shaping both women's health and women's experiences within health systems. Then from a global perspective we will discuss implications of this intersectionality for knowledge translation, practice, policy and research aimed at improving women's health. We will bring together key senior researchers in gender, equity and health to discuss prevalent issues in this area. The outcome of this symposium will be the publication of an academic paper and the formation of the creation of an international network of researchers from both developing and developed countries.