{"id":489,"date":"2021-04-15T09:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T08:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/?p=489"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:26:53","slug":"micro-macro-acts-in-tackling-inequality-in-womens-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/2021\/04\/15\/micro-macro-acts-in-tackling-inequality-in-womens-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro &amp; Macro Acts in Tackling Inequality in Women&#8217;s Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the Institute of Metabolism &amp; Systems Research (IMSR) hosted a webinar marking International Women\u2019s Day. As a highly prevalent (1 in 10 women worldwide) and often misunderstood condition, we chose polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as our lens for this broader discussion.<\/p>\n<p>IMSR has a strong research portfolio in women\u2019s health and Professor Wiebke Arlt, the Institute\u2019s Director, is also the lead investigator on a major Wellcome Trust funded research project called DAISy-PCOS. Furthermore, Professor Arlt and her team have, over the past year, been working on a unique public engagement programme to build leadership and advocacy skills in approximately 30 young women with PCOS. Several of the \u2018DAISy-PCOS Leaders\u2019 therefore also joined the event to share their lived experience perspectives on the links between health inequality and PCOS.<\/p>\n<p>Rewatch the event below &amp;<a href=\"https:\/\/community.forumforglobalchallenges.com\/blogs\/gabriela-da-silva-xavier1\/2021\/04\/13\/tackling-inequality-in-womens-healthcare\"> read a special blog post written about the event for The Institute for Global Innovation<\/a>, where you can also join in the conversation by contributing your own thoughts in the healthcare inequality discussion board.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IWD2021: Our Health Matters, Period - health inequality &amp; PCOS\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BfK8uglhsHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the Institute of Metabolism &amp; Systems Research (IMSR) hosted a webinar marking International Women\u2019s Day. As a highly prevalent (1 in 10 women worldwide) and often misunderstood condition, we chose polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as our lens for this broader discussion. IMSR has a strong research portfolio in women\u2019s health and Professor Wiebke Arlt, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/2021\/04\/15\/micro-macro-acts-in-tackling-inequality-in-womens-healthcare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Micro &amp; Macro Acts in Tackling Inequality in Women&#8217;s Healthcare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,61,119],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-blog","tag-daisy-pcos","tag-institute-for-global-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/weareimsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}