Women's History Month

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Between #MeToo & #TimesUp, the last year has been a high water mark for the awareness of the challenges faced by women in our society. In honor of Women’s Heritage month, the Beyond Flexner Alliance brings you a newsletter this month highlighting the amazing and diverse work being done on gender inequities across health professions; work often being done by women in academia to highlight the trials they face in their training and the tribulations their patients face in achieving health equity. We encourage you to explore the full breadth of leading content we are highlighting this month from an academic study of bias faced by female dental students to a new WHO strategy to address gender inequity and even a media plea for more women to participate in clinical trials. There is a lot of ground to cover, but we hope to have a curated a few highlights for members of the Beyond Flexner Alliance to stay on the leading edge of work in gender health equity.

Social Mission Champion Spotlight

Dana D. Hines, PhD, RN
Dana D. Hines, PhD, RN is known as an emerging nursing leader in transgender health and for her work on issues related to access to HIV care, affirming environments of care, and cultural competency training and education for clinicians. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Hines  worked for the Marion County Public Health Department in Indiana as an HIV surveillance coordinator and clinical quality program manager. During this time she led several health disparities projects aimed at improving engagement in HIV care. Since joining the faculty at GW School of Nursing, Dr. Hines has continued to focus her research on health disparities impacting transgender women, a population rarely offered research opportunities and who have historically been exploited or subsumed under the category of men who have sex with men. Health inequities persist in this population because of stigma, discrimination, and because healthcare providers are inadequately prepared to manage the complex health and social needs of transgender individuals. Dr. Hines’ approach to research targets disparities related to HIV, lack of healthcare provider knowledge, and treats participants as equal partners in the research process.  

Social Mission Champion Spotlight: Want to Share Your Innovative Work with the BFA Community?

The Beyond Flexner Alliance wants to highlight your work! We highlight individuals and projects that embody the Beyond Flexner Alliance goal of promoting a social mission in the health professions and want to share the different ways in which you are building equity in education, research, service, policy, and practice. To submit your project please complete this form.

We look forward to hearing from you! 
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Scholarly Research

• An International Survey of Female Dental Students' Perceptions About Gender Bias and Sexual Misconduct at Four Dental Schools
• The Impact of Women's Health Residency Tracks on Career Outcomes
• Advancing Sex- and Gender-Informed Approaches to Health in an Academic Medical Center
• Investing in gender equity in health and biomedical research: a Singapore perspective
• Addressing the dearth of critical gender analysis in public health and medical pedagogy: an interdisciplinary seminar to generate student-created teaching examples 
• Association of a Simulated Institutional Gender Equity Initiative With Gender-Based Disparities in Medical School Faculty Salaries and Promotions
• An exploration of Global Women’s Health: findings from a pilot online course elective for Health Sciences Studies at GW
• Approaches to considering sex and gender in continuous professional development for health and social care professionals: An emerging paradigm
• From #MeToo to #TimesUp in health care: can a culture of accountability and inequity end harassment?
• Improving Clinical Education and Training on Sexual and Gender Minority Health
• Let's Talk About Sex: The Social Determinants of Sexual and Reproductive Health for Second-Year Medical Students
• Sexual Justice Is Social Justice: An Activity to Expand Social Work Students Understanding of Sexual Rights and Injustices
• Sexual and gender minority health research in nursing
• The role of social media in sex education: Dispatches from queer, trans, and racialized communities
• Delivered by women, led by men: a gender and equity analysis of the global health and social workforce
• Women call ambulance for husbands with heart attacks but not for themselves
• Sex and gender analysis for better science and health equity
• Gender, health and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development 
• Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Equity in Veteran Satisfaction with Health Care in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System
• Racism, African American Women, and Their Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Review of Historical and Contemporary Evidence and Implications for Health Equity

In the News

• 6 women awarded for research on gender bias in medical training
• Twelve tips to promote gender equity in international academic medicine
• Medicine Has Its Own #MeToo Problems. Can Time's Up Healthcare Fix It?
• Student-led and Run Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice
• Medicine Has a Status Anxiety Problem
• When Doctors Downplay Women’s Health Concerns
• Does that medicine work for women? Why signing up for a medical study could be your next feminist move
• These interactive maps show vast disparities in women’s health around the world
• U.S. Women’s Health: Not So Great
• America is failing its black mothers

Announcements & Events
Women's Heritage Month Special Highlights

• Conference: Register for the American Association of Women Dentists (AAWD) 2019 National Conference titled “An Oasis of Collaboration” on September 26-28, 2019. Early registration opens April 1, 2019.
• Conference: Register now for the Association of Women Surgeons 2019 Annual Conference titled “Sculpting Our Future!” on October 26-29, 2019.
• Conference: Register for the 2019 Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Convention on June 8-12, 2019. 
• Course: Register for the 2019 Women’s Sexual Health Course for Nurse Practitioners on May 30-June 2, 2019.

Other Health Equity Opportunities 

• Conference: Register for the Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC) on April 17-21, 2019 in Philadelphia, PA. The Student National Medical Association (SNMA) is hosting their 55th annual AMEC! This year’s theme is The Call for Excellence: Improving the Future of Medicine through Leadership, Service, and Activism.
• Conference: Register for the National Collaborative for Education to Address the Social Determinants of Health First Annual Conference on May 7, 2019.  Abstract deadline is April 1, 2019.
• Program: Apply for the Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Learning Collaborative by May 31, 2019. This six-month program, co-hosted by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Primary Care Progress, National Academies of Practice (NAP), Council on Social Work Education, and American Association of Colleges of Nursing, aims to prepare our next generation of health equity advocates!
• Research: Apply for the Health Disparities Research Institute hosted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) on August 12-16, 2019.
• Conference: Register for the The Network: Towards Unity For Health Network Conference titled “Social Accountability: From Evidence to Action” on September 10-13, 2019