Pride Month: Lane Hall Exhibit celebrates embodiments of gender and identity
In the ongoing exhibit in Lane Hall, Rogério M. Pinto (School of Social Work) invites audiences to join his exploration of myriad embodied gender states, based on intersecting childhood traumas and life experiences. In My Gender States, Pinto shares his deep and abiding grief related to the childhood death of his sister and his own ...
Addressing violence against women in pre-service health training
IRWG affiliate Vijay Singh contributes to WHO Training Guide Dr. Vijay Singh’s 2017 IRWG Faculty Seed Grant was used to travel to, then deliver and evaluate a medical student training at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) School of Medical Sciences in Ghana in 2018. The training was on healthcare identification and response to ...
Addressing equity in research participation incentives
June 2021 Last month, faculty and research staff from the School of Public Health, IRWG, and other research teams and organizations sent an open letter to the Office of the Vice President for Research with more than 380 signatures to advocate for equity in incentive payments for human research subjects. The university currently offers several ...
NIH Funded Research Project: Pregnancy and postpartum support programs for women in prison
May 24, 2021 IRWG’s Consortium for Gender Responsive Prisoner Healthcare has been awarded a new grant as part of a five-year project funded by the National Institutes of Health. This multi-site collaboration seeks to understand how providing incarcerated pregnant women with enhanced pregnancy and postpartum care may improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. Driven by mandatory ...