June 05, 2024
In Nature, OHT’s Dr. Deepshika Batheja provided feedback on a review conducted by the World Health Organization and Global Strategy Lab teams. The review emphasized the need for more countries to recognize how gender influences exposure to pathogens.
“ ‘It is imperative to study gender as it is one of the core social determinants of population health and health inequalities,’ says Deepshikha Batheja at the One Health Trust in Bengaluru, India, who studies the factors that influence women’s participation and productivity in paid work in India, and provided feedback to the WHO and Global Strategy Lab teams on how the review was conducted. ‘This is an excellent and timely piece of work,’ she says.”
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