Professor Jasmine Gideon's Inaugural Lecture: Is "investing in women's health" the answer? Critical reflections on gender, health and development
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Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
‘Women’s health’ is increasingly seen as an ‘investable opportunity’ where profits can be made at the same time as producing tangible improvements in health outcomes, especially in the area of reproductive health. Given the widespread cuts to global health and development budgets as well as the so-called ‘gender backlash’ that threaten to undermine many of the advances that have been made towards achieving gender justice, is private investment in healthcare the answer? Yet in light of the persistent calls for more private investment in women’s health within health and development discourse it is also important to ask, ‘which women’ and ‘what areas of health’ are being prioritised and at what cost. Drawing on my research in Latin America and beyond, I take a critical view of the ways successive health sector reforms have engaged with questions of gender inequalities over the past few decades and consider some of the challenges and opportunities to be addressed in a future research agenda.
Biography
Jasmine Gideon is Professor of Global Health and Development with a specific interest in the gendered political economy of health in Latin America and issues around health and migration. She has a PhD and an MSc in Development Studies and a BA (Hons) in History. Prior to working at Birkbeck she worked at the University of Manchester and the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. She has also carried out consultancies for a range of development institutions including Pan American Health Organisation, Global Health 5050 and UN Women.
She is currently the Co-Investigator of an Academy of Medical Science funded network 'Understanding the inequality impacts of health PPPs in Middle Income Countries' with colleagues from Peru, Argentina, Brazil, India and Kenya. She has also led an ESRC GCRF network - Equalities in Public Private Partnerships (EQUIPPS) and was the Co-Investigator on a GCRF funded network Andean Network for Venezuelan Migrants.
This inaugural lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Clore foyer.
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