Applying intersectional approaches to pandemic preparedness and response

The Advancing Equity-Based Pandemic Preparedness Through Intersectional Analysis project was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Catalyst Grant: CPHO’s Report 2021 - Future of Public Health. The project aims to draw on learnings from the COVID-19 response to better understand public policy opportunities and challenges related to mitigating the unequal effects of health crises in Canada and to develop guidance tools for integrating intersectional analysis into pandemic preparedness. Knowledge users on the grant include representatives from the Public Health Agency of Canada and Women and Gender Equality Canada.

This project builds off of previous work of the Gender and COVID-19 project funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, including Dr. Smith's book Conscripted to Care.

PIPPS Team: Julia Smith, Haaris Tiwana, Alice Murage, Lara Hollman

Partners: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Public Health Agency of Canada; Women and Gender Equality Canada

Outputs:

• Journal article: The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) as community-based knowledge brokers

• Journal article: Equity lens on Canada’s COVID-19 response: Review of the Literature
• Journal article: Towards more caring and consultative crisis management

• Research Brief: Applying Intersectional Approaches to Pandemic Prepardness and Response

• Report: Pandemic Preparedness Playbook: Ensuring Equity-Based Response During Crisis

• OpEd: Canada's Healthcare Crisis is Gendered

• OpEd: Future Pandemics Demand a Response that is Focused on Equity

• Book: Conscripted to care: Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response