Womens 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.
NEU: Vorwort in: Gerlinde Maurer (HRSG.) Frauengesundheit in Theorie und Praxis. transcript genderstudies Bielefeld 2010. S. 7-9.
NEW: Keynote at the 28th International Congress of the Medical Women´s International Association on Globalisation in Medicine - Challenges and opportunities. July 28th, 2010 in Münster, Germany. >>
www.mwia2010.net >> Keynote
A summary in German is available in Die Ärztin 3, November 2010
In the publication Globalization, women and health in the 21st century. (Editor: Ilona Kickbusch, Kari A. Hartwig, Justin M. List, Palgrave in 2006) she explored the interface of gender, globalization and health based on the work at a number of conferences and symposia.
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 regularly 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.