Women and Gender in Global Health

Moderator: Sonja Merten, Swiss TPH

P1-A: Seminar Room 1 / 10:15-11:15 / Moderator: Leah Bohle, Swiss TPH

• Innovative Digital Solutions for Maternal and Child Health: Examples from Tanzania and Zanzibar, Riccardo Lampariello and Hannah McCarrick Mikidadi, D-tree
• From Cash to Care: Impact of Digital Innovations and Cash Transfers on Maternal Health in Makoko, Lagos, Tolulope Fadeyi, University of Basel
• The "New Antenatal Model in Africa and India” Study - a Digital Decision-Making Tool, Maria Barreix, World Health Organization
• Health Vouchers to Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality in Cameroon, Bruno Galland, Independent Consultant
• Digital Solutions for Access to Medical Abortion in Kenya and Rwanda, Natacha Mugeni, YLabs

P1-B: Seminar Room 4 / 10:15-11:15 / Chair: Julia Bohlius, Moderator Masa Davidovic, Swiss TPH

• Cancer in Women Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Care Cascade Approach, Tafadzwa Dhokotera, Swiss TPH
• Preventing Cancer in Women: Experience from the NORA Projects, Mazvita Muchengeti, National Cancer Registry, South Africa
• Preventing Lung Cancer in Women: Smoking Cessation, Julian Jakob, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Primary Prevention of Cancer in Women, Michele Matta, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Switzerland
• Policy and Implementation Research: Colorectal Cancer Screening in Switzerland, Bianca Albers, University of Zurich, Switzerland

P1-C: Seminar Room 5 / 10:15-11:15 / Moderators: Carmen Sant-Fruchtman and Rebeca Revenga Becedas, Swiss TPH

Breaking the Cycle: Health Systems and Gender-Based Violence

We will examine the health system’s dual role in responding and being shaped by GBV, including its impact on health workers, while critically reflecting on how health systems reinforce social and gender norms that perpetuate violence. A key focus will be the intersection of multiple systems of oppression and their influence on the lived realities of wom*n. This thought-provoking session will challenge assumptions and foster a constructive dialogue on pathways to creating a more equitable and responsive health system.

Roundtable Panellists

• Manjola Veizi, Roma Women Rights Center, Albania
• Jessica Ramirez, International Committee of the Red Cross
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P2-A / Seminar Room 1 /11:30-12:30 / Moderator: Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Swiss TPH

• A Feminist Lens on One Health, Brigitte Bagnol, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Sex/Gender Analysis and One Health Approach at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface, Claudia Cataldo, Italian National Institute of Health; Center for Gender Specific Medicine
• Gender and Cultural Aspects in Addressing Infectious Diseases from a One Health Perspective, Salome Bukachi, University of Nairobi, Kenya and Durham University, UK
• Caring for Health in More-Than-Human Worlds: A Feminist Anthropology Perspective, Nolwenn Bühler, Unisanté, University of Lausanne

P2-B / Seminar Room 4 / 11:30-12:30 / Moderator: Jordyn Wallenborn, Swiss TPH

• Human Milk as a Biologic System, Jordyn Wallenborn, Swiss TPH
• Sex/Gender Disparity in Response to Viral Infections and Vaccines, Anna Ruggieri, Italian National Institute of Health; Center for Gender Specific Medicine
• Anemia and Vaccine Responsiveness in Infants and Children in Sub-Saharan Africa, Claudia Daubenberger, Swiss TPH

P2-C / 11:30-12:30 / Seminar Room 5 / Moderator: Janet Michel, Swiss TPH

• Menstrual Health and Menopause - How the Two Converge, Metascha Stierli, Private Practice, Bern, and Flata Mwale, Women in Global Health Zambia and Södertörn University, Sweden
• Menstrual Health Activism in South Africa, Lucy Khofi, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Improving Menstrual and Vaginal Health for All, Monica Roxana Ticlla Ccenhua, Swiss TPH

Moderator: Sonja Merten and Janet Michel, Swiss TPH

Moderator: Andrea Lucard, Medicines for Malaria Venture