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Dr. Zahra Zeinali
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MD MPH DrGH (c) - Dept of Global Health at U of Washington • Health systems & policy, equity, SDoH, gender & intersectionality • PLOS GPH & BMJ Public Health editorial board • Formerly at Johns Hopkins SPH, IFMSA, GH50/50
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madhupai.bsky.social
New @plosglobalpublichealth.org essay on how "soft money funding structures can maintain the inequalities of Global Health and how it is beyond the financial interests of elite global North actors under this funding model to advocate for real structural change"

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Soft money, hard power: Mapping the material contingencies of change in global health academic structures
In the proliferating conversations about decolonizing Global Health, a basic assumption has been that global South actors should be the conceptualizers, leaders, and makers of change with global North...
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May 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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gh5050.bsky.social
We're hosting an online event spotlighting the #GenderedHealthPathways tool - our latest effort to show how gender shapes health journeys across #diabetes, #HIV and #hypertension.

Interested in data-driven approaches for gender justice in #GlobalHealth?

Stay tuned.

#EvidencetoAction
A promotional graphic featuring the text: “COMING SOON – Webinar: Exploring Gendered Health Pathways”. The design has abstract dark blue and purple wave pattern. A stylised outline of a walking person appears in the bottom left, and the Gendered Health Pathways logo is in the bottom right. The Global 50/50 logo can be seen in the top right corner.
May 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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rebuildconsortium.bsky.social
🎙️ Interdisciplinary capacity building, decolonising health policy research, One Health approaches & advancing gender equity in health systems are all covered in this edition of the ReBUILD podcast...
▶️ www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/fi...
With @tinafischer.bsky.social & @zr-z.bsky.social
Advert for the connecting citizens to science podcast and showing a globe being lifted by hands
May 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Reposted by Dr. Zahra Zeinali
gh5050.bsky.social
Our new tool, #GenderedHealthPathways, visualises sex-disaggregated data across the health journey for #HIV, #diabetes & #hypertension — revealing where gender-based inequities emerge & where interventions are needed.

🔍 Dive into the data: bit.ly/ExploreGHP

#HealthEquity #EvidenceToAction
Quote by Diah S. Saminarsih, Founder & CEO, Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI): “Decision-makers often say they lack data to support the formulation of gender-responsive policies.” (Quote continues on the next graphic) “Gendered Health Pathways can help planners understand precisely where women’s health can be best improved.” (Quote continues on the next graphic) “It’s my utmost hope to see this tool used for visualisations of Indonesian data to inform all development actors.”
May 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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gh5050.bsky.social
We often underestimate how much #gender shapes our health. It influences who gets sick, who gets diagnosed, and who gets treated.

🔍 #GenderedHealthPathways reveals these hidden inequalities—so we can push for change and better health for all.

#GlobalHealth #GenderJustice #HealthForAll
Graphic with a large green question mark on a light blue background. Bold navy blue text reads: 'How might understanding the ways gender affects people’s lives bring about better health for all?' At the bottom left, there is a logo for Gendered Health Pathways, featuring three wavy lines in green, purple, and navy.
April 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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gh5050.bsky.social
Our This is Gender open call closes tomorrow—don’t miss your chance to be part of a global movement to confront exclusion.

We’re looking for powerful visual stories that reveal how #gender and #disability shape lives—through systems, spaces, relationships, and beyond.

➡️ Enter now: bit.ly/4b8vKvZ
A promotional graphic for This is Gender: Gender & Disability Open Call. It features a black-and-white image of a Sezer, a 13-year-old boy with spina bifida, kneeling on grass with his arms open wide and his head tilted to the sky. To his side is his wheelchair, adorned with a bunch of balloons. The photo is powerful, showing Sezer’s resilience and how he dreams big. A muted rainbow stripe frames a grey text overlay in the bottom left corner of the image representing the Disability Pride Flag. The text reads: "This is Gender: Gender & Disability Open Call 2025. Enter by 18th March 2025." Logos for Global Health 50/50 and CREA appear in the bottom right corner of the graphic, overlaid on the image.
March 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
zr-z.bsky.social
Thank you collective for #PDoH for giving me a platform to write about the need for justice & intersectionality on the occasion of #IWD2025
collectivehealth.bsky.social Collective for the Political Determinants of Health @collectivehealth.bsky.social · Mar 14
In the most recent Collective Blog post, Zahra Zeinali (@zr-z.bsky.social) examines the converging crises defining our global moment, and highlights the importance of intersectional justice in global health

Read the full piece here: www.sum.uio.no/english/rese...
March 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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collectivehealth.bsky.social
In the most recent Collective Blog post, Zahra Zeinali (@zr-z.bsky.social) examines the converging crises defining our global moment, and highlights the importance of intersectional justice in global health

Read the full piece here: www.sum.uio.no/english/rese...
March 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
zr-z.bsky.social
At the #CSW69 side event on Countering Regression and Anti-Rights Movements
Powerful remarks from Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng: when right to health is affected, the right to economic participation, to sports, to enjoying life is threated. The right to #health underpins other #HumanRights.
March 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
zr-z.bsky.social
Attended a #CSW69 side event on Women In Power: Getting to 50-50 which discussed women's unequal representation in political spaces. As most events on #WomensLeadership there wasn't enough emphasis on systemic barriers for women's leadership, and more on personal empowerment.
March 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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madhupai.bsky.social
How do we respond to the war on equity?

@jocalynclark.bsky.social @bmj.com offers many thoughtful suggestions

www.bmj.com/content/388/...
The war on equality
Equality feels like oppression to those accustomed to privilege, the adage goes. To certain petty political leaders and their supporters, it must. There is no other explanation for the current erasure...
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March 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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gh5050.bsky.social
We’re looking forward to convening #CSW69 delegates for our closed door roundtable on #gender & #DEI backlash this Friday 9am. Please join us by registering before noon on Thursday. Contact us if you are interested in attending.
Read the report here: globalhealth5050.org/rollback-and...
March 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
zr-z.bsky.social
@gh5050.bsky.social just published a report to examine the impact of current backlash on #DEI in USA:
Over a quarter of US-based global health organisations removed or significantly altered references to DEI and/or #GenderEquality commitments on their websites.

Read report here: bit.ly/41su24n
Rollback and Resistance: How US-Based Global Health Organisations Are Responding to the DEI Crackdown – Global Health 50/50
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March 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Reposted by Dr. Zahra Zeinali
garryaslanyan.bsky.social
Global health is dead, long live global health? !!!
It certainly feels that we are at a critical juncture.
I won't say more, just encourage you to listen to my latest conversation with @seyeabimbola.bsky.social & Hani Kim, ICYMI. Tune in now 👉 tinyurl.com/GHM-E44
@ghm-podcast.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
zr-z.bsky.social
"This reconfiguration would require a more complex approach grounded in local realities, diplomacy, and renewed commitments to multilateralism." @pascaleallotey.bsky.social & @khosla.bsky.social write in @thelancet.bsky.social

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Age of distrust: impact of hegemonic policy decisions on sexual and reproductive health and rights
Trust is an implicit cornerstone of global health. Trust between nations, organisations, health-care providers, and communities helps shape relationships that ground global policy making, programming,...
www.thelancet.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
zr-z.bsky.social
"Publication ethics and professional standards define
the work of medical journals, editors, and
researchers. These are safeguards of best scientific
practice and integrity—and will not yield to bad
practice like gag orders, suppression, and authoritarian whims."
February 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM