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November 29, 2019

Measurement of Health Inequalities

The International Center for Equity in Health (ICEH) gave a workshop on the measurement of health inequalities from November 20th to 22nd, 2019 in Brasília. Present at the event were the researchers Andrea Wendt, Cauane Blumenberg, Fernando C. Wehrmeister, and Janaína Calu Costa. Members of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Ministry of Health were trained in order to apply an equity lens to the monitoring of health indicators, with a focus on Non-Communicable Dise

November 27, 2019

World Breastfeeding Conference

Researchers from the International Center for Equity in Health participated in the third World Breastfeeding Conference in Rio de Janeiro on November 13th, 2019. The roundtable session, entitled Socieconomic and Ethnic Inequalities in Child Nutrition, was coordinated by professor Cesar Victora. Paulo Augusto Neves (ICEH) discussed Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Use of Infant Formula in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, and Giovanna Gatica (ICEH) talked about E

November 13, 2019

Female Headed-Households: Intersectional Analyses of Gender and Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The workshop Female Headed-Households: Intersectional Analyses of Gender and Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, promoted by Countdown to 2030, was held at the African Population and Health Research Center in Dakar, Senegal from November 6th to 8th, 2019. Representing the ICEH team at the event were Cesar Victora, Aluísio Barros, Andrea Wendt, Franciele Hellwig and Leonardo Ferreira. Participants from 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa worked on statistical and epidemiological

October 31, 2019

Meeting of young researchers from Rio Grande do Sul

Professor Aluisio Barros was invited to speak at the first "Meeting of young researchers from Rio Grande do Sul - research culture and environment in the State and their determinants" on his work for which he received the award "Gaucho Investigator 2018 - special award for Science for the Reduction of Inequalities". His lecture was presented on the 19 Oct 2019 at the Cultural Center of UFRGS, Porto Alegre and covered his work on health equity and his role as one of the founde

October 24, 2019

SVRI - Sexual Violence Reserach Initiative Forum 2019

The ICEH postdoctoral fellow Carolina Coll participated in the Sexual Violence Reserach Initiative Forum (SVRI) 2019 held from 21-25 October at the Cape Town International Convention Cenree in Cape Town, South Africa. With over 6600 members, the SVRI is the largest global network for advancing research on violence against women and violence against children and other forms of violence driven by gender inequality. During the event, the researcher presented about intimate partner violence again

October 24, 2019

ICEH contributes to Unicef report on Global Challenges to Child Nutrition

One in every three children under five years of age in the world is malnourished or overweight, while half are deficient in essential vitamins and minerals, a phenomenon known as hidden hunger. These are some of the warnings contained in the report “State of the World’s Children 2019”, launched on Monday, October 14th, by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). The document, which brings together original data and analyses on food and child nutrition globally, is the

October 23, 2019

Countdown to 2030: Regional Initiative to Strengthen the Analytical Capacity and Evidence for Nutrition in West Africa

Countdown to 2030 – Regional Initiative to Strengthen the Analytical Capacity and Evidence for Nutrition in West Africa – Second Advanced Analytical Workshop: Dakar, 14 – 18 October 2019 The second workshop was held under the theme: “Leaving no woman and no child behind: levels and trends in inequalities in nutrition coverage and status among women, children, and adolescents", and facilitated by a team of experts from the Johns Hopkins University, Internation

October 03, 2019

PAHO report points out efforts to reduce inequalities in the Americas

The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) released the report Just Societies: Health Equity and Dignified Lives this Tuesday, October 1st, in Washington, during PAHO’s 57th Board of Directors' second day of meetings. The document presents twelve recommendations to reduce health inequalities in the American continent, with examples of policies, programs and coordinated efforts between governments, transnational organizations and civil society. The proposed actions are chi