To the Members of the UN Human Rights Council, It is an honor to communicate with you and share the findings from my research. As a college student in a class on International Women’s Health, I have had the opportunity to learn about the Roma minority in Europe, with a particular focus on women’s health [...]
This week, I carried out my research in order to find a second intervention that I thought seemed promising and was doing work in Africa to combat violence against women. Although my research enabled me to learn about a number of organizations (UNFPA, Raising Voices in Uganda, Vital Voices Global Partnership [and the work that [...]
In the first iteration of my blog this week, I outlined the rights that undocumented Mexican migrant women in the United States, including protection from an abusive partner or employer. I was determined to find a promising intervention for this problem, since, as I discussed in a previous blog, Mexican and other migrant women make [...]
Yesterday and one day before International Women’s Day, Doctors With Borders released a report called Maternal Death: The Avoidable Crisis which declares that 1,000 women a day die in childbirth (1). The emergency of maternal health provides MSF with an opportunity to create a sustainable and long term plan to treat women during and after [...]
As I have been reading interventions for mental health, I think it’s important to develop interventions that center on therapies that have been proven to work. Besides medications and other such treatments, one treatment option is psychotherapy or “talk therapy.” While psychotherapy alone might not be effective for the most severe forms of depression, the [...]
Last week in my blog, I discussed the potential that medical device innovation holds for transforming the accessibility and quality of healthcare in the developing world. Such innovation is dependent on understanding the problem in the context of the local culture, developing solutions unique to that situation, and distributing these products to the people in [...]
As I’ve stated at the beginning of a few of my blogs, I’m looking at how user fees can effect maternal health in developing countries. They can present an important barrier to accessing health services, but providing free health care has problems of it’s own. The struggle for developing countries across the world is to [...]
As was commented on my last blog, immigrants who are residing in the United States absolutely do have rights, despite common misconceptions. As I discussed two weeks ago, immigrant women who are in the U.S. illegally are especially vulnerable to abuse (including economic, physical, and sexual) because they often feel helpless to seek help from [...]
As all of you know, I’ve been focusing my blog lately on the gender pay gap between men and women in the corporate world. For this week’s blog I’d like to focus on executive training programs specifically available to women, and analyze their successes, failures, and opportunities to improve. For a bit of perspective, I’m [...]
Last Words: Memo to the Director-General of the WHO
Increased Funding for Adolescent Reproductive Health Essential to Improve the Quality of Life of Women Executive Summary The World Health Organization should prioritize funding for programs that support adolescent health and improve the Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) among women. Adolescent reproductive health is a key stage in a woman’s development that determines the quality [...]