Kindly note that this webinar has been rescheduled for 8th March 2022 at 2pm CAT.

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Session Description:

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science was first proclaimed at the initiative of the UN in 2015 with the objective of progressing the significant role of women and girls in the development of all sciences. This initiative was also part of a larger, longer-term effort toward closing gender gaps around the world by promoting equality according to the 2030 Sustainable Developments Goals. With the COVID-19 pandemic, where millions of people were obligated to work from home for the past 2 years the issue of academic gender disparity has become more evident, especially for women with young children. When many schools across the world closed, women had to spend more of their time fulfilling domestic responsibilities, such as cleaning, cooking, engaging in childcare, and home-schooling which now took away time from their scientific work compared to their male counterparts.

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This month, the #AskProfAgnes Equity Webinar series will host a panel of prominent experts from diverse backgrounds and regions who will discuss the role and contribution of women in science, explore the challenges faced by women and girls in science around the world, determine the impact COVID-19 has had and challenges it has caused inequity and provide solutions on the way forward through the lessons learnt to disintegrate different stereotypes and discriminations made against women in science.

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Host:

Tsion Yohanness Waka

Chair, Center for Gender Equity, University of Global Health Equity.

Tsion Yohanness Waka’s  full bio can be found on the UGHE website here

Chair:

Prof. Agnes Binagwaho

Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity 

Prof. Agnes Binagwaho’s full bio can be found on the UGHE website here.

Speakers: 

Dr. Renzo Guinto

Chief Planetary Health Scientist, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health in Malaysia

Dr. Renzo is also the Associate Professor of the Practice of Global Public Health and Inaugural Director of the Planetary and Global Health Program of the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine in the Philippines. An Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader and Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, Renzo is a member of several high-level groups including the Philippine Climate Change Commission; Lancet–Chatham House Commission on Improving Population Health post-COVID-19; and Advisory Council of Global Health 50/50. He was a consultant for WHO, World Bank, and USAID. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Health from Harvard University and Doctor of Medicine from the University of the Philippines. In 2020, Renzo was included by Tatler Magazine in its Gen.T List of 400 leaders of tomorrow who are shaping Asia’s future.

Prof Marleen Temmerman

 Chair of Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University (AKU).

She served as Director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) at WHO, HQ Geneva. She was elected Senator in the Belgian Parliament (2007-12) . She is the Founding Director of the International Centre of Reproductive Health (ICRH) at Ghent University, Belgium, with offices in Kenya and Mozambique and member of a large global collaborative academic network (28 universities globally).  She has a strong academic background with over 500 peer-reviewed publications and books in the area of women, adolescents and children health and rights, family planning, HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases, and health systems (Scopus H-index 65). 

Prof Flavia Senkubuge

Deputy Dean Stakeholder Relations, Associate Professor Public Health Medicine, MBChB(Pret) Mmed(Community Health) FCPHM(SA) MBA (HWU) PhD(Public Health).

Prof Flavia Senkubuge is a medical doctor and Public Health Medicine specialist. She is the Deputy Dean Stakeholders at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also the President of the Colleges of Medicine South Africa (CMSA). The CMSA is the apex body of medicine in South Africa. She is the current Chair of the WHO/Afro region African Advisory Council on Research and Development (AACHRD) and is the president of Women in Global Health (WGH) South Africa. She is also the Vice-President of the African Federation of Public Health Association (AFPHA).