Women's Health Month Panel Event

This unique event brings together pioneering women's health experts from fields such as:

• Sexual and reproductive health and human rights in urban Bangladesh
• Reproductive and maternal health in vulnerable communities in Myanmar
• Menopause and gynaecology in Liverpool
• Breast cancer screening engagement and awareness in low-income communities

Submit questions in advance to [email protected], or join in us person in Learn 3, Pembroke House, to engage in meaningful conversations around women's health. The event will be followed by a complimentary drinks and networking session to allow you to continue the conversation with our panellists.

Unfortunately this event is in-person only and registration is mandatory.

Meet our incredible panel below!

Dr Kyu Kyu Than

Researcher, scientist, teacher and co-principal investigator for the Burnet Institute Myanmar, whose mission is to achieve better health for vulnerable communities. She holds a double masters in tropical medicine and sexual and reproductive health and works on policy analysis in sexual, reproductive and maternal health. She has expertise in designing, managing, organising and conducting research (multi-country studies). Kyu Kyu has worked as a consultant for various organisations including the World Bank, UNICEF, Save the Children, the Red Cross and the 3MDG fund. She is dedicated to reducing health inequities for women, men, children and adolescents across the world.

Charlotte Hemingway

PDRA in Department of International Public Health at LSTM specialising in participatory action research to improve access to and uptake of preventative medicine. Charlotte’s current research activities focus on exploring the complexities and impact of digital and creative health promotion for cancer screening and infectious disease outbreaks and within this capacity she has done some fantastic work around increasing engagement with breast cancer screenings in low-income communities.

Kathie Cooke

Gynaecology consultant nurse, BMS Registered Menopause Specialist and founder of the only Liverpool-based menopause clinic. She is a Registered General Nurse, Ba Hons Specialist Practitioner, MSc Clinical Nursing and Independent Prescriber. She also holds over 40 years of experience in all aspects of women's health.

Sabina Faiz Rashid

Trustee and Honorary Professor in International Public Health at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. She is also the Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair in Health and Poverty (Endowed by the BRAC Founder, Late Sir F.H. Abed) and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (CGSRHR) at the James P Grant School of Public Health at Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has a PhD, Masters and Bachelors in anthropology and public health from the Australian National University, Canberra.

She founded the Centre of Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the James P Grant School in 2008 and, in 2013, co-founded the Centre on Urban Equity and Health. Her areas of research and teaching interests are ethnographic and qualitative research, with a focus on gender, health, human rights, and services amongst urban populations, adolescents, and marginalised groups in rural and urban Bangladesh.

Beth Hollihead (CHAIR)

Senior Programme Manager leading the ADAPT programme management team based in the department of International Public Health of LSTM. The team manages a portfolio of transdisciplinary research programmes and consortia, working with partners in Africa, Asia and South America. Current portfolio includes research on gender and equity in AMR, urban health and climate change, and diagnostics for Tuberculosis.

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