Moderated by Derek Kunaka, CHISU’s HIS Director, this panel discussion featured:
- Rajeev Colaço, M.D., Dr.P.H., Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting (MERLA), RTI International’s Global Health Division
- Roopa Dhatt, M.D., Executive Director, Women in Global Health
- Mzi Nduna, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand
- Preeti Negandhi, M.D., Ms.C., Additional Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health-Delhi and Public Health Foundation of India
Speakers discussed their experiences with—and opportunities for—gender integration in HIS in the following domains:
- HIS leadership and governance (e.g., ensuring that women, men, and those marginalized due to gender-related norms influence and participate in HIS efforts)
- Systems and software (e.g., developing and enhancing gender-sensitive indicators, integrating the indicators, and maintaining disaggregation in enhanced interoperable information systems)
- Data quality and use (e.g., predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and data science techniques, and capacity-strengthening efforts to ensure that an equity and the ethical lens is used in training, testing, application of analytics, interpretation, and decision-making)
- Local partners’ capacity enhancement (e.g., training, mentorship, and organizational capacity strengthening that is inclusive, equitable, and promotes diversity among trainers, mentors, and country HIS leadership)