Eurosurveillance seminar: Diversity and inclusion in research and scholarly publishing
Diversity and inclusion are important principles to ensure equity and reduce inequalities, also in infectious disease and public health research and when reporting its outcomes. As signatory of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Publishers Compact, Eurosurveillance is committed to taking action on SDG 3 ‘Good health and well-being’, SDG 5 ‘Gender equality’ and SDG 10 'Reduced Inequalities’. The 2024 seminar will address aspects related to sex and gender and geographical representation when generating and reporting scientific findings.
Date and time
21 November 2024 12.30-14.00 CET
Speakers
Gowri Gopalakrishna
Gowri is an epidemiologist by training who has had various roles as an epidemiologist in big pharma, NGO and government in Asia and Europe before commencing her PhD in 2011. She has been involved in the control and prevention of the SARS epidemic of 2003/04 in Singapore and later, was one of the contributing voices in the Netherlands on the COVID-19 pandemic providing review and critique to the national prevention and control measures of The Netherlands as well as on the quality of COVID-19 research being produced. She was principal investigator of the Dutch National Survey on Research Integrity from 2018-2022 and has various roles contributing to research integrity and ethics globally. Her current research focuses on research integrity, open science and reproducibility and building capacity in this in Africa.
Shirin Heidari
Shirin is the director of GENDRO, a non-profit association promoting sex and gender responsive research. In addition, she is a Senior Researcher at the Gender Centre, the Geneva Graduate Institute. Previously, she served as the Executive Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters and Editor-in-chief of its peer-reviewed journal. Before that, she led the Research Promotion Department of the International AIDS Society and was the Executive Editor of the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS). Shirin received her doctorate at Karolinska Institute in 2001 and continued as an HIV researcher until her move to Geneva in 2007.
She founded and co-chaired the EASE Gender Policy Committee and led the development of the widely cited Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines. She has been an elected board member at Amnesty International, Sweden, served as a commissioner to the Lancet Commission on Women, Power and Cancer, and is currently co-Vice-President of the Foundation Board of the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum for Human Rights (FIFDH). She has been a TEDx speaker and author of several publications. She was recognized as one of the influential figures shaping the future of International Geneva in 2022.