Gendered Familial Care Work and Public Health Crises

This (online) multi-disciplinary conference aims to foster dialogue about the connection between public health crises and the gendered caregiving obligations of women and girls in the context of low and lower middle-income countries. The conference presentations will examine the public health, ethical, and political significance of fragmented and under-resourced national health systems on the gendered familial care work responsibilities of women and girls from low-income households. A central theme of the conference will be the need of state actors and non-state actors (within nations and internationally) to support and bring about structural, systemic changes that will improve the lives of women and girls from low-income households. The larger goal of the conference is to foster conversation between researchers, practitioners, and activists from a variety of contexts and fields who are concerned about those issues.

Plenary speakers are as followers:

• Madhumita Dobe 
  https://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/54
• Nancy Folbre
  https://peri.umass.edu/economists/nancy-folbre

• Eva Feder Kittay
  https://evafederkittay.com/
• Juliet Nabyonga-Orem 
  https://www.africahealthpot.org/profilesingle.php?id=1
• Colleen O’Manique 
  https://www.trentu.ca/ids/faculty-research/colleen-omanique

The conference is sponsored by the University of Rhode Island.

Questions about the conference should be directed to the following email: [email protected]