New Resource Spotlight: eLearning Course on Gender and Health Systems Strengthening
A new course on the Global Health eLearning Center highlights ways to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in building stronger health systems.
Gender and Health Systems Strengthening is intended to assist USAID field-based health officers, foreign service nationals, and US government partners to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in health systems strengthening efforts.
Women and men have different opportunities and constraints, needs, power, and access to the resources affecting their health. Promoting gender equality in all six components of the health system, as described by the World Health Organization, means assuring fairness and justice in the distribution of benefits, power, and resources.
Learners will gain an understanding of how these six health systems components—service delivery, health workforce, health information systems, access to essential medicines, financing, and leadership—interact with each other, how gender plays a role in each component, and ways to address gender issues in order to improve health and social outcomes.
The free course is authored by CapacityPlus’s Constance Newman of IntraHealth International. CapacityPlus’s Crystal Ng and Ann Yang of IntraHealth served as course managers along with Nandini Jayarajan and Lisa Mwaikambo of JHU∙CCP.
A recommended prerequisite for this course is Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health 101, which provides a basic understanding of key gender concepts.
To learn more, read the full course description. And please let us know what you think; we welcome your feedback.
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