How Sex and Gender Analysis lead to Discovery!
Event details
Date | 30.06.2017 |
Hour | 12:15 › 14:00 |
Location |
UNIGE
|
Category | Miscellaneous |
“Gendered Innovations” is receiving increasing attention by research funding bodies on European and national levels. In her workshop, Londa Schiebinger, the leading scholar on gender in science, will show how by including gender and diversity perspectives in research can improve and innovate science. Employing case studies from various disciplines, she will show how by doing so, it can save lives, eliminates bias, and lead to new discoveries.
When: 30 June | 12: 15 - 14:00 | University of Geneva
Where: Room B 02.2226| CMU 1 | Rue Michel Servet (UNIGE)
Program of the meeting:
12 :15 Welcome
Henri Bounameaux, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva
Brenda Kwak, President of Equality Commission, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Geneva
Brigitte Mantilleri, Director, Equal Opportunity Office, University of
Geneva
12:25 Key speaker
Gendered Innovations in Health & Medicine
Londa Schiebinger, Professor, Stanford University
Followed by interaction with the expert: How to include gender in your
own research
13:30 Inputs from Switzerland : Good practices on Gendered Innovations
Is gender meaningful? Testimony...
Antoinette Pechère-Bertschi, Professor, Faculty of medicine, University
of Geneva
Integrating a gender dimension in clinical research and teaching
Carole Clair Willi, Privat docent & Senior Lecturer, University of
Lausanne
Joëlle Schwarz, Project Officer, R&D Centre, Medical Outpatients'
Clinic, University of Lausanne
Gender Dimension in Research Proposals: the role of
EPFL’s Research Office
Caroline Vandevyver, Senior Lecturer,
Head of the Research Office, EPFL
13:45 Follow-up of discussion around a cocktail buffet
For further information and registration (not later than 23rd of June) please see: www.unige.ch/egalite/Genderedinnovations
Practical information
- General public
- Free