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Gender-transformative Digital Health: An Intersectional Approach to Bridging Multiple Divides for Greater Health Equity and Impact
Location
Internet
Term
Summer Institute
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2025 - 2026
Instruction Method
Synchronous Online
Start Date
Monday, July 28, 2025
End Date
Thursday, July 31, 2025
M, Tu, W, Th, 8:00am - 12:00pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
One Year Only
Resources
With the rapid digital transformation of health, entire segments of the world’s population beginning with women who experience the most significant digital divide are increasingly at risk of being left behind.
Explores how a gender-intersectional approach to digital health contributes to improved health equity, and how increased inequity results from not applying this approach. Provides case studies to apply a gender analysis, planning, and monitoring framework. Assesses how specific health system effects and health outcomes are generated by digital health interventions that did or did not take a gender-intentional approach.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify gender and intersectional vulnerabilities within digital and health divides such as gender, age, nationality, ethnicity, race, socio-economic status, disability, etc.
- Analyze the role of gender-intentional and intersectional approaches in shaping the relationship between digital health and equitable health outcomes.
- Conduct a gender and intersectional analysis on a digital health case study.
- Design a gender-intentional and intersectional digital health intervention, including proposed indicators to monitor and evaluate the impact on health outcomes.
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 40% Discussion Board
- 30% Final Paper
- 30% Final Presentation