Speaker on gender and healthcare

Visiting UK academic Professor Lesley Doyal is scrutinising issues of sex, gender, health and health care in a series of talks at UCT. An honorary professor at UCT and a World Health Organisation consultant, Doyal's first address in sex and gender was on 14 February. Two more lectures are scheduled: Sex, Gender and Health Research on Thursday, 21 February, at 13h30-15h30 in the Postgraduate meeting room 2, Barnard Fuller Building; and Gender Sensitivity and Gender Politics in Health Care on Wednesday, 27 February, at 14h00-16h00 in the Barnard Fuller Conference room 1& 2. For more information and to RSVP, contact either Di Cooper (Diane.Cooper@uct.ac.za) or Phyllis Orner (Phyllis.Orner@uct.ac.za) of the Women's Health Research Unit.