It took place on March 24th, the conference Gender Mainstreming in Medicine and Medical Research, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL). The conference was organised within the project ERA Chair iSTARS – Informatics and Statistical Tools for the Advancement of Research Success, promoted by FMUL and funded by the European Union (Project 952377).
Organised by the Faculty of Medicine in collaboration with CIEG, the conference meant to bring this issue, still underexplored in Portugal, to practitioners, researchers, students, and all those interested in applying a gender perspective in medicine and medical research.
Gina Rippon, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at Aston University, gave the keynote speech on The Gendered Brain: Do you have a Female or a Male? Or are we asking the wrong question?.
Three others panels with academics from both medicine and sociology took place. The first panel, titled Gender issues in Medicine and Health I had as its speakers Ana Abreu (IMP&SP - FMUL), Anália Torres (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa), Paula Campos Pinto (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa), Diana Maciel (CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa) and António Manuel Marques (ESS/IPS: Escola Superior de Saúde).
On the second panel, Gender issues in Medicine and Health II, participated Ana Fernandes (CAPP/ISCSP-ULisboa | CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa), Violeta Alarcão (CIES-ISCTE | ISAMB), Pedro Candeias (ISCTE-IUL | ISAMB), Vasco Prazeres (former Counselor for Gender Equality of the Portuguese Ministry of Health) and Amélia Augusto (UBI).
Lastly, in the panel dedicated to Gender medical research, participated Ruy Ribeiro (Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) | FMUL), Maria Mota (IMM – João Lobo Antunes) and Brígida Riso (ISAMB-FMUL).
