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Diversity and Equality During COVID-19: The World Series
2021 24 Aug
Looking at gender, bias and equality through the lens of the COVID-19 crisis and its potential for broad and lasting effects and addressing how this unprecedented situation can be a chance for interaction, learning and the development of best practices, such as developing work structures that could be continued in our post-pandemic future.... Read more
Working in the Pandemic and Preserving Diversity
2021 24 Aug
The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and communities of colour and the need for diversity among healthcare workers and public health leaders. Introduction D iversity is the condition of having many different elements. These may include people with different opinions, backgrounds (degrees and social experience), religious... Read more
Want More Innovation in Women's Health? Hmm, Perhaps Hire More Female Scientists?!?
2021 20 Jul
Fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies designed to address problems affecting women, say researchers from McGill University, Harvard Business School, and the Universidad de Navarra in Barcelona. Biases that limit the number of women in science and technology are well known, but the consequences... Read more
Managing Diversity - Pathways to a More Inclusive Future
2021 19 Mar
An overview of the lack of representation of women and other minoritised populations in healthcare and their relative absence from positions of leadership and power. Key Points The World Health Organization reports that women are overrepresented in the healthcare workforce but are absent at senior levels. The absence... Read more
Intensive Care Medicine: Reflections on the Gender Gap
2020 24 Nov
Is the gender gap a concern for intensive care medicine (ICM)? ICM is not gender friendly by design and this could have a major impact on the discipline given the increase in the number of female doctors. What are the main barriers to career progression for women in ICM? Members of the iWIN Foundation present their views. S everal authors... Read more
ISMRM 2020 - 28th Annual Meeting & Exhibition
2020 08 Oct
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS FROM APRIL TO OCT 8-13TH Find ISMRM on Social Media Read more
ACHE Congress on Healthcare Leadership 2020
2020 23 Mar
CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS HEALTH RISK Find ACHE on Social Media Read more
More women in radiology research: need for diversity and inclusion
2019 23 Jan
In a new study that examines the potential challenges and obstacles to female radiologists conducting research and publication of work, the American Association for Women Radiologists propose strategies to overcome these challenges. In the report published in Academic Radiology , researchers say that initiatives targeting the identified challenges... Read more
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Diversity Task Force
2018 01 Jun
In March the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) ( esicm.org ) announced its Diversity Task Force (pictured), which will draft a policy paper and code of conduct related to gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, race, culture, socioeconomic status and multi professionalism. ESICM is the first major international medical society... Read more