BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/ X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Montreal BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682da107409b6 DTSTAMP:20250521T054647 DTSTART:20110328T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20110328T130000 URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/37536 LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Pavillon Marguerite-d'Youville\, 2375\, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine\, Montréal\, QC\, canada\, H3T 1A8 SUMMARY:Women's health in India: Emergent Issues & Challenges to Public Hea lth DESCRIPTION:Ce séminaire scientifique est co-organisé par l'Institut de r echerche en santé publique de l'Université de Montréal (IRSPUM) et le P ôle de recherche sur l'Inde et l'Asie du Sud (PRIAS) du CÉRIUM. Il sera donné par Lingam Lakshmi. Conférencière Dr. Lakshmi is Dean\, Research & Development and Professor of Women Studies at the Tata Institute of Soc ial Sciences in Mumbai\, India. Her research interests include the social and gender-specific implications of health sector reforms and other macro economic policies\; urban poverty and women livelihoods\; studying women a nd other social movements in the period of globalization\; understanding w omen health and reproductive rights\; and exploring issues of culture\, wo men identity and agency. She has undertaken several research projects and published extensively on gender\, health\, development\; structural adjust ment & urban poverty\; micro credit & women empowerment and public policie s. She is on the Curriculum Advisory Boards of several Women Studies Depar tments in Indian Universities as well as Technical and Ethical Advisory Bo ard member of NGOs. In addition to her outstanding teaching and research activities\, she has contributed to gender and equity mainstreaming activi ties of Government departments in a number of states in India. Résumé P rovision of health care services implicitly factor in the understanding of social and economic disadvantage and vulnerability. However\, the underst anding of gender as an important contributor for poor/negative health outc omes has still not been addressed in public health programmes. Focus on wo men still continues to be women-specific and maternal health oriented.This talk attempts to throw light on understanding the gender issues in societ y that throw fresh challenges to health care services delivery. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Montreal X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Montreal END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR