UK and global perspectives on care, health and food policy

10:00-11:45  PANEL ONE: Health and food services in the UK

Maureen Mackintosh (OU): “What would a gender-equal health service look like? How might we move towards it?” (paper link here)

Jerome De Henau (OU/WBG): “The case for investing in universal childcare across various economies”

Lorena Lombardozzi (OU): “Food Poverty and urban struggles during COVID-19 Pandemic: the social reproduction of unequal London” (IKD working paper with Jeanette Copperman and Carolyn Auma)

 Discussant: Sue Himmelweit OU / Women’s Budget Group

 45 minutes break

12:30-14:00 PANEL TWO: Health and gendered social change in the Global South:

Kevin Deane (QMUL - OU): “Wealthier women and their general absence in the development literature: towards a future research agenda”

Ece Kocabicak (OU): “Gendered Property and Labour Relations in Agriculture: Implications for Social Change in Turkey” 

Fiorella Picchioni (University of Greenwich): “Strengthening resilience in response to COVID-19: A call to integrate social reproduction in the sustainable food systems approach”.

 Discussant: Susan Newman (OU)

 5 minutes break

 14:05- 14:30 Wrap up, impacts and way forward

(moderator: Lorena Lombardozzi)

Link to Lorena's just-published IKD WP:  https://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/sites/www.open.ac.uk.ikd/files/files/working-papers/Food%20Poverty%20London_Lombardozzi%20et%20al_0.pdf )

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