Women’s health
"We need to accept gender as a defining structural feature of societies and need to move it to the very core of any analysis of globalization and its effects on health – it is not just an additional variable. …Gender equality is becoming the lynchpin of any positive global equilibrium."
Kickbusch, Ilona, Keynote on occasion of the launch of the network on gender and health, Bern 2003
Throughout her career Ilona Kickbusch has been committed to issues of women’s health and has published widely on the women’s health movement in German. While at WHO she launched a major European initiative of national women’s health reports “Women’s Health Counts”. Her key interest remains to develop strategies for women’s empowerment.
She is now exploring the interface of gender, globalization and health and has contributed to a number of conferences and symposia. She has recently co edited a book on Globalization, women and health in the 21st century. (Editor: Ilona Kickbusch, Kari A. Hartwig, Justin M. List) which was published by Palgrave in 2006.
In 2005 she presented the keynote lecture and the closing comments at the 5th National Conference on Women’s health in Melbourne Australia and the advisory board of the Fogarty International Program at the US National Institutes of Health on “Gender, Globalization and Health.”
She advises the Women’s Health program of the City of Vienna, one of the leading women’s health programs in Europe.
Women’s health has also been part of her brief as Adelaide Thinker in Residence in 2007 (*.pdf) and her advisory role for the Swss Federal Office of Public Health.
She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Men’s Health and Gender.
Some key activities:
- Presentation to the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. Sixtith Advisory Board Meeting, May 23-24, 2005 (*.ppt)
- Keynote at the Conference: Lust auf Dialog. Frauengesundheit und Migration, Berlin, November 2003 (*.pdf)
- Member, Advisory Board, Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institute of Health Research
- Chair, International Advisory Board, Women’s Health Program, City of Vienna, Austria
- Yale Symposium on Gender, Globalization and Health 2003
