CSW54: WHO panel discussion on women and health
3 MARCH 2010 | NEW YORK
Organizer: WHO
Event dates: 3 March 2010
Venue: Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, Manhattan Room, New York, United States
WHO calls for action to improve the health of women & girls: What would it take to make health systems work better for women?
This panel discussion at CSW54 will take forward the evidence of the global report "Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda", recently released by the World Health Organization (WHO). The discussion will bring together country representatives, UN partners and civil society on making health systems work better for women.
- 15 years after Beijing: where are we going from here with health systems? Introductory remarks by Ms Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director-General, Family and Community Health, World Health Organization
- Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda. Dr Tonya Nyagiro, Director, Department of Gender, Women and Health, World Health Organization
- Primary health care renewal: to be and what to be? Dr Sundari Ravindran, Consultant and Honorary Professor, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Kerala, India
- A donor perspective on gender dimensions of health systems strengthening. Bilateral agency (TBC)
Contact: Monika Gehner, WHO Department of Gender, Women and Health, +41 22 791 39 41, gehnerm@who.int