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International Women’s Day 2021 Challenging Health Inequalities 8th March 2021 (13.00-16.30) Public Policy Projects 28 Queen Street, London EC4R 1BB E: [email protected] T:0745425522 #ChooseToChallenge Contents 1. Wh at is Public Policy Projects? 2. International Women’s Day 2021 3. About this Event a. Session 1: Reproductive Healthcare b. Session 2: Gender, Aging & Health c. Session 3: Racial Disparities in Women’s Healthcare 4. Timetable and Audience #ChooseToChallenge #ChooseToChallenge What is Public Policy Projects? Public Policy Projects (PPP) is a subscription-based policy institute that offers practical policy analysis and development within the UK. PPP is independent and cross-party, bringing together public and private sector leaders, investors, policymakers and commentators with a common interest in producing actionable insights for future public policy. PPP produces reports, white papers and due diligence for local, national and regional governments, the NHS, private and public/third sector organisations. As an institute, PPP regularly organises webinars, roundtables, conferences and facilitates meetings with our expert policy board including Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell, Baroness Nicola Blackwood and Stephen Hammond MP. What We Do PPP is a cross-sector, global leader in healthcare, life sciences, med-tech, social care, infrastructure and global economics policy development. PPP produces a series of national and international policy publications including State of the Nation Reports, industry white papers and due diligence advising government, public/third sector POLICY organisations and private companies. PPP provides policy-led news, insight and analysis to its global audience through a series of sector specific publications. Bringing together insights generated through policy development and exclusive editorial features, PPP offers its network an unparalleled perspective on the cutting-edge developments in healthcare, infrastructure PUBLISHING and global economics. PPP hosts a range of physical and virtual events bringing together experts and senior thought leaders from across the world. Through conferences, bi-monthly breakfast meetings, virtual breakfast webinars, seminars and roundtables, PPP offers a forum for debate and the development of actionable insights across a range of sectors. EVENTS International Women’s Day 2021 International Women’s Day is a global day deDicateD to the celebration of women’s social, economic, cultural and political achievements. th CelebrateD annually on 8 March, International Women’s Day focuses on: - Celebrating women’s achievements - Raising awareness about women’s equality - Campaigning for accelerateD genDer parity - Fundraising for female-focuseD charities The campaign theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is ‘Choose To Challenge’. A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re “ all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can choose to challenge anD call out gender bias, discrimination and stereotyping. We can choose to seek out anD celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively we can create an inclusive “ and more gender-equal world. From challenge comes change, so let’s all choose to challenge. #ChooseToChallenge For more information on the International Women’s Day 2021 campaign theme, please visit internationalwomensday.com #ChooseToChallenge About this Event International Women’s Day: Challenging Health Inequalities From challenge comes change. In celebration of International Women’s Day, Public Policy Projects (PPP) will be hosting a virtual conference entitled ‘Challenging Health Inequalities’, on Monday 8th March 2021. This virtual event will looK at gendered health inequalities, with a view to producing actionable policy insights that can improve healthcare outcomes for all. Gender is a key determinant of health. Health conditions, health behaviours, service access, and exposure to health risks all vary considerably by sex and gender. The Covid-19 pandemic has put some health systems under immense pressure and stretched others beyond their capacity. Now more than ever, it is essential that we continue to assess whether the requirements of all patients are truly being met. Meeting the healthcare needs of all women is highly important and despite examples of best practice there is still much room for improvement. Using a solution-oriented approach, this event will explore gendered healthcare inequalities by looKing at three key policy areas: reproductive health, gender and ageing, and racial disparities in women’s healthcare. A series of panel discussions with leading experts will unpick the complex relationship between gender and health, identify solutions for gender responsive change and propose an agenda for action. Following the event, PPP will produce a report outlining the emerging policy priorities of the conference. More specifically, this report will provide policy insights and analysis on how to best improve women’s access to reproductive healthcare, the importance of a gendered approach to healthy ageing and how best to implement effective strategies to eliminate racial inequities in healthcare. This will be available to read and download on the PPP Policy Library and the World Healthcare Journal (WHJ). WHJ is a globally facing publication, providing strategic insight into the development of policy and practice in international healthcare and life sciences. Available online and in print, WHJ provides opinion, news and intelligence for governments, healthcare providers and private organisations at a senior level covering all global markets, topics and sectors. #ChooseToChallenge Long Term Vision Public Policy Projects is currently developing a long-term ‘State of the Globe’ policy project on the women’s preventative healthcare agenda, which hopes to address the international gender inequities in women’s health data, research and policy. This State of the Globe report will propose gender sensitive indicators and implementation plans which aim to create a more equitable healthcare landscape and will be launched at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 2022. Public Policy Projects’ International Women’s Day event will form part of this series of high-level policy discussions on international women’s health over the course of 2021-2022. Each session will integrate considerations towards gender biases in research and data to identify and re-engineer elements of our international health system in response to women’s needs. This event combines the CSW 2021 priority theme, ‘women’s full and effective participation and decision-maKing in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls’ and the IWD 2021 priority theme ‘Choose to Challenge’. As such, each panel session will challenge a pertinent health inequality and identify ways to mobilise research, data and policy that will empower women and girls to manage and maKe effective decisions about their own health. Chair: Baroness Nicola Blackwood Event Synopsis The virtual conference will take place on 8th March 2021 (13.00-15.30). Within this timeframe, PPP will host three panel events focusing on key issues in global women’s health, as well as a short virtual networking interlude for conference attendees and opening and closing statement s from our conference Chair. Outline Session 1: Reproductive Healthcare Session 2: Gender, Aging & Health Session 3: Racial Disparities in Women’s Healthcare The emerging insights will feed into PPP’s long-term State of the Globe report on women’s preventative healthcare. This session will draw upon expert insight to outline the key areas of concern for women’s health. This will further shape the research and policy agenda for the year ahead. A report of this event will be published after the conference and shared with the PPP network and attendees. Session 1: Reproductive Healthcare Current criticism focusses on reproductive health services where providers are too often concerned only with controlling women’s fertility. This has been reflected in poor communication of information, a lack of cultural sensitivity and dehumanising treatment which itself has affected women’s willingness to use the services. Contraception has become widely available, meeting practical needs based on gender stereotypes, but this fails to recognise women’s strategic interests. For example, to meet strategic needs, health services would need to enable women to choose freely between a range of contraceptive methods, to be educated on the functioning of their bodies and risks and rights related to childbirth and to research and identify preventative strategies to promote their own wellbeing. For example, the UK emergency abortion legislation, introduced on 31st March 2020, temporarily introduced telemedicine to allow women to take both the first and second early medical abortion pills at home, just like their Scottish and Welsh counterparts. Previously, women were required to attend a registered clinic to obtain the first abortive pill (Mifepristone) under the supervision of a doctor, then given the second pill (Misoprostol) to take at home 24-48 hours later. Under the emergency abortion legislation, a woman will have medical advice over the phone and will receive the pills in the post in discreet packaging. A recent review from the World Health Organisation (WHO) found that 94-96 per cent of abortions carried out via telemedicine were complete, matching completion