Julia Handfield
Julia is a passionate gender health equity activist with Medical Herstory, an award-winning non-profit. She has facilitated the development and publication of over 50 articles to eliminate sexism, shame, and stigma from healthcare experiences through improving medical education and patient advocacy as well as dismantling social stigma.
Storytelling to improve gender health equity
Storytelling to improve gender health equity will involve patients and healthcare professionals writing stories about how they encountered gender- and/or sex-based challenges in as/with patients in healthcare. The creation and sharing of stories will provide a chance to reflect and be supported by a roundtable event in Montreal to discuss what can be learned from these texts towards eliminating sexism, shame, and stigma from healthcare experiences.
https://medicalherstory.com/À propos de ce projet
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Le fonctionnement du projet
- Open a call for submissions to recruit people to share their gender-based healthcare stories (starting now) - Publish stories with unique, personalized GIF visuals (by June) - Host a roundtable event to discuss stories (July)
Résumé de l'impact
The intended impact is to help shed light on the various types of experiences that can occur in healthcare and how we can learn from them to improve gender health equity.
Résumé de la mission
The mission is to eliminate sexism, shame, and stigma from healthcare experiences by sharing stories and connecting over these experiences shared and their implications for gender health equity.
Équipe du projet
A group of motivated volunteers at Medical Herstory, including the executive committee.
- Elle Fletcher, Jackie Alford, Tori Ford, Daria Lisus, Elle Nelson, Emma Margie, Natasha Matta
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