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Addressing gender, equity and marginalization in global health: moving from reductionism to complexity

Posted on August 27, 2019October 23, 2019

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health hosted Pascale Allotey for a conversation around "Addressing gender, equity and marginalization in global health: moving from reductionism to complexity" on September 25, 201... read more →

Reproductive Justice in the Era of Backlash

Posted on February 5, 2018August 22, 2018

The second session of the Spring 2018 semester of the USC Law & Global Health Collaboration focused on reproductive health. Professor Michele Goodwin, who holds the Chancellor’s Professorship at the University of Califo... read more →

How does gender affect health?

Posted on April 27, 2017March 6, 2019

Learn about the relationship between gender and health in this video from Greg Martin, featuring Shubha Kumar, director of USC's Master of Public Health online program. Dr. Martin runs the Global Health with Greg Martin ch... read more →

Human Rights, Gender, and Infectious Disease: From HIV/AIDS to Ebola

Posted on November 1, 2016August 25, 2018

The HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Zika crises have revealed that infectious disease does not affect all global citizens equally. Among the many factors at play in making some people more vulnerable than others are human rights and gend... read more →

Gendered power dynamics and women’s negotiation of family planning in a high HIV prevalence setting

Posted on October 26, 2015August 17, 2018

In sub-Saharan Africa, high burdens of HIV and unmet need for contraception often coexist. Research emphasizes the need to engage men and couples in reproductive health, yet couples' negotiations around fertility and family p... read more →

Gender, Equity and Rights at the World Health Organization

Posted on August 20, 2015August 21, 2018

This month the Program on Global Health & Human Rights commenced a new project with the World Health Organization’s Gender, Health Equity and Human Rights team to assist with mainstreaming equity, human rights and gende... read more →

HIV and gender-based violence: welcome policies and programmes, but is the research keeping up?

Posted on November 1, 2014August 21, 2018

The global HIV policy arena has seen a surge of interest in gender-related dimensions of vulnerability to HIV and violence. UNAIDS and other prominent actors have named gender-based violence a key priority, and there seems to... read more →

Gender, Sex, and Sexuality—Same, Different, or Equal?

Posted on March 1, 2010August 21, 2018

In this theme issue, ‘‘Gender and Sexuality,’’ we celebrate these victories and consider also the assumptions at play when these terms are used in our work. Health disparities related to gender affect a complex array ... read more →

Gender-based Violence and HIV: A Literature Review

Posted on August 1, 2006August 21, 2018

This is a review of publications addressing aspects of the intersection between gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV. Initially, this review was concerned with bringing together literature which integrated sexuality and hum... read more →