BROADENING HORIZONS

Fiona McDonnell tells us about Jane's Place - the female-only day service will provide a ‘one-stop-shop’ for access to information and supports across health, addiction, life skills, gender-based violence, coercive control, legal issues, education, employment support, counselling and mental health services. This excerpt is taken with the permission of Merchant Quay Ireland from their Annual Review 2020. Merchants Quay Ireland is a leading Irish charity working with people experiencing homelessness and people who use drugs. The organisation provides services ranging from crisis and case management, healthcare services, harm reduction and family support to residential and community detox & rehabilitation, aftercare, and prison-based addiction counselling. Through their recent Gender Equality in Drug Treatment Project the MQI Women’s Project aims to create and implement responses that will improve access, and ultimately outcomes, for women experiencing multiple levels of disadvantage or exclusion. Join in this #ScienceWeek 7-14 November as we take a look at bias in women's health and research. @BiasWomenHealth - Twitter @Bias_Womens_Health - Instagram #BiasWomensHealth www.bias-womens-health.com BIAS: Inequality in Women's Health and Research is a Science Week festival developed by RCSI Rotunda Research Department. The Festival is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. #ScienceWeek #ScienceWeek2021 #GenderBias #ScienceFoundationIreland #BiasWomensHealth #WomensHealth

This excerpt is taken with the permission of Merchant Quay Ireland from their Annual Review 2020. Merchants Quay Ireland is a leading Irish charity working with people experiencing homelessness and people who use drugs. The organisation provides services ranging from crisis and case management, healthcare services, harm reduction and family support to residential and community detox & rehabilitation, aftercare, and prison-based addiction counselling. Through their recent Gender Equality in Drug Treatment Project the MQI Women’s Project aims to create and implement responses that will improve access, and ultimately outcomes, for women experiencing multiple levels of disadvantage or exclusion. Join in this #ScienceWeek 7-14 November as we take a look at bias in women's health and research. @BiasWomenHealth - Twitter @Bias_Womens_Health - Instagram #BiasWomensHealth www.bias-womens-health.com BIAS: Inequality in Women's Health and Research is a Science Week festival developed by RCSI Rotunda Research Department. The Festival is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. #ScienceWeek #ScienceWeek2021 #GenderBias #ScienceFoundationIreland #BiasWomensHealth #WomensHealth

Áine Sperrin is a Post-Doctoral researcher with the Re(al) Productive Justice Project at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy. Áine has worked with a wide variety of Irish and International human rights organisations and lectures in Independent Living on the LLM in International Comparative Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway. Áine is also a Board Member of the Sibéal Feminist and Gender Studies Network, a Board Member of Aiseanna Tacaíochta and the Chair of Ability West Human Rights Committee. Áine obtained her Bachelor of Civil Law from UCD in 2010 and received her Masters of Law from Trinity College Dublin in 2011. Join in this #ScienceWeek 7-14 November as we take a look at bias in women's health and research. @BiasWomenHealth - Twitter @Bias_Womens_Health - Instagram #BiasWomensHealth www.bias-womens-health.com BIAS: Inequality in Women's Health and Research is a Science Week festival developed by RCSI Rotunda Research Department. The Festival is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. #ScienceWeek #ScienceWeek2021 #GenderBias #ScienceFoundationIreland #BiasWomensHealth #WomensHealth

Selina is an Indian / Irish disabled woman who holds a Master’s Degree in Disability Studies from the University of Leeds and a Professional Diploma in Human Rights and Equality from the IPA / IHREC. She has been an activist, lecturer and trainer in the international disabled people’s movement for more than 25 years. Her particular research interests centre on sexuality, sexual expression and reproductive rights for disabled people. Selina has been published on related topics in various fora including a chapter titled ‘Towards Sexual Citizenship: Dispelling the Myth of Disabled People’s Asexuality’, in the book Sexualities and Irish Society: A Reader. She is currently the Vice Chair of Independent Living Movement Ireland (ILMI), represents ILMI on the Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition, and is a Regional Ambassador for the NUIG Centre for Disability Law and Policy Re(al) Productive Justice Research project. She is also a busy wife, mother and passionate home chef who works full time for South Dublin County Council as their Disability Liaison, Access and Equality Officer. Join in this #ScienceWeek 7-14th November as we take a look at gender bias in women's health and research. @BiasWomenHealth - Twitter @Bias_Womens_Health - Instagram #BiasWomensHealth www.bias-womens-health.com BIAS: Inequality in Women's Health and Research is a Science Week festival developed by RCSI Rotunda Research Department. The Festival is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. #ScienceWeek #ScienceWeek2021 #GenderBias #ScienceFoundationIreland #BiasWomensHealth

Aarti Kapoor is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at The Australian National University. Her research is on the field of Science Communication, and it focuses on the communication of hysterectomy information to Australian women. In particular, she is looking at the communication challenges faced by Australian women who are deciding whether or not to undergo this procedure. Join in this #ScienceWeek 7-14 November as we take a look at bias in women's health and research. @BiasWomenHealth - Twitter @Bias_Womens_Health - Instagram #BiasWomensHealth www.bias-womens-health.com BIAS: Inequality in Women's Health and Research is a Science Week festival developed by RCSI Rotunda Research Department. The Festival is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. #ScienceWeek #ScienceWeek2021 #GenderBias #ScienceFoundationIreland #BiasWomensHealth #WomensHealth

Prof. Deborah McNamara, MD, FRCSI is a Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, a Clinical Professor of Surgery at RCSI, Co-Lead on the National Clinical Programme in Surgery and the chair of RCSI’s Working Group on Gender Diversity. She talks to us about barriers to entry in medicine and what institutions, like RCSI, are doing to encourage and enable diversity in surgery and medicine. Join in this #ScienceWeek 7-14 November as we take a look at bias in women's health and research. @BiasWomenHealth - Twitter @Bias_Womens_Health - Instagram #BiasWomensHealth www.bias-womens-health.com BIAS: Inequality in Women's Health and Research is a Science Week festival developed by RCSI Rotunda Research Department. The Festival is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. #ScienceWeek #ScienceWeek2021 #GenderBias #ScienceFoundationIreland #BiasWomensHealth #WomensHealth

Prof Fionnuala Ní Ainle, Consultant Haematologist at the Mater Hospital and the Rotunda Hospital talks about the importance of including everyone in research with her work focusing on including pregnant women. Prof Ní Ainle tells us about her work on the HighLow study which is aimed at comparing the two doses of clot-preventing medication to determine which dose is most effective (in terms of preventing a new blood clot) and safest (in terms of side-effects such as bleeding). Join in this #ScienceWeek 7-14 November as we take a look at bias in women's health and research. @BiasWomenHealth - Twitter @Bias_Womens_Health - Instagram #BiasWomensHealth www.bias-womens-health.com BIAS: Inequality in Women's Health and Research is a Science Week festival developed by RCSI Rotunda Research Department. The Festival is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. #ScienceWeek #ScienceWeek2021 #GenderBias #ScienceFoundationIreland #BiasWomensHealth #WomensHealth

Dr Sarah Fitzgibbon, Founder of WIMIN spoke with us about #BiasinMedicine and #BiasWomensHealth along with the impact that has on patients today. Join in this #ScienceWeek 7-14 November as we take a look at bias in women's health and research. @BiasWomenHealth - Twitter @Bias_Womens_Health - Instagram #BiasWomensHealth www.bias-womens-health.com BIAS: Inequality in Women's Health and Research is a Science Week festival developed by RCSI Rotunda Research Department. The Festival is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. #ScienceWeek #ScienceWeek2021 #GenderBias #ScienceFoundationIreland #BiasWomensHealth #WomensHealth