Gender equality in the global health workplace: learning from a Somaliland-UK paired institutional partnership.

ABSTRACT: Worldwide recognition of gender inequality and discrimination following the #MeToo movement has been slow to reach the field of global health. Although international institutions have begun to address gender, the perspectives of front-line global health workers remain largely undocumented, especially in regions not captured by large-scale surveys. Long-term collaborative relationships between clinicians and educators participating in paired institutional partnerships can foster cross-cultural dialogue about potentially sensitive subjects. King's Somaliland Partnership (KSP) has linked universities and hospitals in Somaliland and London, UK, for health education and improvement, since 2000. We collaboratively developed an anonymous, mixed methods, online survey to explore workplace experien

SUBMITTER: Keynejad RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6304104 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature