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Abstract
Historically, women have been less likely to be supported through higher degree training programmes, and they continue to hold more junior positions in science. This paper reviews the current gender research and gender capacity-building efforts led by the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). Created more than 40 years ago as the only United Nations-based Special Programme dedicated to research and research capacity building on infectious diseases, TDR has a longstanding track record both in supporting research into gender-specific questions and in research capacity strengthening among women scientists. We provide an overview of these approaches, then describe a recent pilot programme on Women in Science, designed to understand and remedy the gender gaps in health research. The programme focused on Africa, but it is hoped that the replication of such schemes in TDR and other international funding agencies will lead to more attention being given to women in infectious diseases research in other continents. This article may not be reprinted or reused in any way in order to promote any commercial products or services.
Highlights
The socially constructed characteristics of gender and physiological differences between women and men pervade the epidemiology of and responses to infectious diseases
We describe TDR’s track record in gender research, with particular attention to recent efforts to contribute towards addressing the problem of the lack of gender equity in African countries
From 1988 on, with the appointment of Carol Vlassoff to TDR, research on women and tropical diseases was pursued under the auspices of a dedicated Steering Committee on Social and Economic Research (SER), with an extensive programme to encourage scientists from endemic countries to consider disease differences by sex and gender [21, 23,24,25]
Summary
The socially constructed characteristics of gender and physiological differences between women and men pervade the epidemiology of and responses to infectious diseases. From 1988 on, with the appointment of Carol Vlassoff to TDR, research on women and tropical diseases was pursued under the auspices of a dedicated Steering Committee on Social and Economic Research (SER), with an extensive programme to encourage scientists from endemic countries to consider disease differences by sex and gender [21, 23,24,25].
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