Rosemary Morgan, PhD

Speaker Bio:

Rosemary Morgan, PhD, is an Assistant Scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of International Health, with a joint position in the School of Nursing. She has expertise in gender, intersectionality, and health systems. Dr Morgan currently leads the Sex and Gender Analysis Core for the NIH funded Sex and Age Differences in Immunity to Influenza (SADII) project and works as a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) advisor for the UK Partnerships for Health Systems programme (UKPHS). She is also a co-PI on a project exploring the gendered effects of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, DRC, and Brazil supported by the Gates Foundation, an advisor on a CIHR funded project exploring the gendered effects of COVID-19 in Canada, the UK, China, and Hong Kong, and co-coordinates a Gender and COVID-19 Working Group.

Presentation: Creating Gender Responsive Health Sytems: Does COVID-19 Provide Us with an Opportunity to Build Back Better?  

Health systems are not gender neutral, yet gender inequities are often neglected in health systems. While gender inequities existed within health systems before the COVID-19 pandemic, they have been made more acute as a result of the pandemic. Gender inequities in leadership and governance, human resources for health, and access to services have only worsened the effects of the pandemic on health systems actors and users – particularly women. This presentation will explore gender inequities within health systems in the context of COVID-19, and how the pandemic may provide us with an opportunity to create more effective, gender responsive, health systems.