Dates: 10am-4pm GMT, 8 Feb 2019
Location: Live stream
Launch of the Lancet's "Advancing women in science, medicine and global health". Livestreamed from London.
London Launch Programme (https://hubs.ly/H0gjntN0)
10:00 Welcome (Jocalyn Clark, Executive Editor, and Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet)
10:15 Keynote speech: Caroline Criado-Perez OBE
10:45 Session 1: Gender bias and assessment (Chair: Sonia Bhalotra, Professor of Economics, University of Essex, UK) Scientific presentation: Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? (Holly Witteman, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada) Followed by a panel discussion on the role of gender bias, both conscious and unconscious, in areas including grant funding, hiring, performance assessment and evaluation, and promotion to leadership positions, and how to overcome this barrier to women’s advancement. Panellists:
• Tammy Clifford, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada
• Sonia Gandhi, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
• Cassidy Sugimoto, National Science Foundation, USA
• Ed Whiting, Wellcome Trust, UK
11:45 Session 2: Institutional barriers to retention and advancement (Chair: Imogen Coe, founding Dean of Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada) Scientific presentation: Why do women leave surgical training? (Tim Dornan, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK)
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00 Session 2: Institutional barriers to retention and advancement Panel discussion of institutional environments that women encounter as students, trainees, and professionals, and the change needed to ensure gender equity in careers and advancement in science, medicine, and global health. Panellists:
• Nahla Gafer, Khartoum Oncology Hospital, Sudan
• Behrouz Nezafat Maldonado, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
• Nana Odom, Royal United Hospital Bath, UK
• Gigi Osler, Canadian Medical Association, Canada
• Elizabeth Viglianti, University of Michigan, USA
13:45 Session 3: Better diversity for better science (Chair: Naana Otoo-Oyortey MBE, Executive Director, Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development) Scientific presentation: Factors affecting sex reporting in medical research (Vincent Larivière, Université de Montréal, Quebec, QC, Canada) Followed by a panel discussion of how and why are diversity and inclusion essential for producing the best science and achieving advances in health, and what institutional leadership is needed to ensure diversity and inclusion. Panellists:
• Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England, UK
• Anuj Kapilashrami, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Ruth Ndjaboue, Laval University, Canada •
Geordan Shannon, University College London, UK • Gemma Tracey, Wellcome Trust, UK
14:45 Tea break
15:00 Session 4: From evidence to action and accountability: making commitments (Chairs: Liz Zuccala, Deputy Editor, The Lancet HIV, and Sarah Hawkes, Professor of Global Public Health, University College London, UK) Close: Jocalyn Clark and Richard Horton
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