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Prof. Janina Steinert is invited to give keynote at 7th Conference of the Austrian Health Economics Association

In her keynote "Assessing Harmful Health Outcomes among Adolescent Girls in Zambia an India in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic" Prof. Janina Steinert will talk about research findings and ethical implications.
First slide of Prof. Janina Steinerts keynote presenation
Picture Credit: Prof. Janina Steinert
Under the quote of António Guterres is a picture showing a painted crows wearing masks. on top of the pictures are the icons of SDG target 5.3, 5.6, and 5.2
Slide from Prof. Janina Steinerts Presentation
Picture Credit: Prof. Janina Steinert

The 7th ATHEA Conference „Looking beyond borders: Global health economics“ is organised by the Austrian Health Economics Association and takes place in Vienna, Austria from Febrauary 23-24 2023 and includes a separate PhD Workshop focussing on „Health economics and health policy in and from Austria“.

Janina Steinert will talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the Global South, namely (1) gender-based violence (SDG target 5.2), (2) child and forced marriage (SDG target 5.3), and (3) sexual and reproductive health (SDG target 5.6).

UNICEF (2020) estimates that 1.5 million girls in India are married before reaching adulthood each year and up to one in four Indian girls give birth during adolescence (Nguyen et al., 2019). Recent estimates suggest that one in eight women was exposed to physical and/or sexual violence in the previous year (Daruwalla et al., 2020). In Zambia, almost one in three girls is married and falls pregnant before her 18th birthday (UNICEF, 2020). Over 40% of Zambian women and girls have experienced sexual and/or physical violence in their lives.

To tackle this, and to shine light on effects the COVID-19 pandemic has here, Janina Steinert acquired research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). You can find out more about it on the project website.

To find out more about the Conference, please visit their homepage.

 

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