DATE / TIME:

2021•07•01    21:00 - 22:30

Location:

Kuala Lumpur

The Gender and Digital Health Webinar Series is a platform to foster new partnerships and co-create knowledge on the gendered dimensions of digital technologies for health, with a focus on translation of evidence to policy and practice-based learning in low and middle income countries. The series are organised by a consortium between UNU IIGH, The University of Cape Town and BBC Media Action.

Topics we will explore:

✔ Improving gender statistics with big data

✔ Gender-ness of IT systems and data digitisation on health systems inequities

✔ Gender and race inclusive algorithms

Moderators

Claudia Lopes

Research Fellow, United Nations University – International Institute for Global Health

Amnesty LeFevre

Associate Professor, University of Cape Town

Panelists

Diva Dahar

Senior Program Officer

Gender Equality team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Anita Raj

Director

Center on Gender Equity and Health (GEH), UC San Diego

Franz F Wong

Senior Gender Integration Specialist

Stanford Global Center for Gender Equality

Jonathan Jackson

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dimagi

Discussants

Neha Kumar

Associate Professor

Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Mamello Thinyane

Principal Research Fellow

United Nations University Institute in Macau

Event Details

When: Thursday 1 July

Time: 9:00 – 10:30pm (MYT) / 1:00 – 2:30pm (GMT)

Registration: https://go.unu.edu/VT2ly

The webinar will be on the Zoom platform and registration via Eventbrite is mandatory. The connection details will be sent to you via email upon registering.