Sick of it: The global fight for women's health
This event will highlight the new book by Professor Sophie Harman, titled Sick of it: The global fight for women's health, with the discussion focusing on humanitarian settings. This book is a powerful call to confront the reasons why global politics is jeopardising women’s health across the world, by a prize-winning academic. We know the causes of disease and death among women all over the world. We have the funding from governments and philanthropists to tackle them. So why are women still dying when they don’t have to? Across the globe, women’s health is being caught in the crossfire of politics: from the repeal of abortion rights and the bombing of Ukrainian maternity hospitals, to lesser-known issues like healthwashing and the exploitation of vulnerable patients as well as women health workers. Exploring urgent questions including populism, big data and the undervaluing of women’s work, 'Sick of It' also offers smart solutions on how to fix this crisis through activism and political work.
Join Professor Sophie Harman, the author of this book, as well as Dr. Bhargavi Rao, Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for an important discussion on women's health in humanitarian settings.
The event will be followed by a drinks reception.
Speakers
Sophie Harman
Professor Sophie Harman is Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London where she teaches and conducts research into Global Health Politics, African agency in International Relations, and Visual Politics. She has published eight books and numerous articles on these topics, advised the UK government and UN agencies, and engaged the general public through media appearances, film, and public talks. In 2016 she co-wrote and produced her first narrative feature film Pili, which was nominated for a BAFTA for outstanding debut for a British writer, producer, or director in 2019. She was the recipient of the Political Studies Association Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding achievement by a mid-career scholar and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2018. Her first book for a popular audience, Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women’s Health, was published by Virago/Little Brown and featured as The Observer’s Book of the Week in 2024.
Bhargavi Rao
Dr. Bhargavi Rao is Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has a long history of working in humanitarian settings for Médecins Sans Frontières (Operational Centre Amsterdam), including leading the Emerging and Infectious Diseases portfolio, dividing her time between COVID-19, malaria and other infectious diseases outbreaks. She is a public health clinician with a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology and at LSHTM is of the co-Programme Directors of the new Distance-Learning Health in Humanitarian Crises programme.
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