Women represent around 70% of jobs in healthcare and have played an outsize role in the response to the pandemic. Despite the dominance of women in the field, there is still a lack of policies that support them to balance their work and family responsibilities. Join us to discuss how we can address this and other inequities and gender imbalances in the healthcare system.

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Kates, Senior Vice President, Kaiser Family Foundation

Panelists: Dr. Roopa Dhatt - Executive Director, Women in Global Health; Kristin Bergtora Sandvik - Professor, University of Oslo; Julia Kaufman - Research Associate, Center for Global Development

As former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson says, “climate change is a man-made problem with a feminist solution.” On this panel, we will learn from a few of the women leaders, visionaries, and changemakers working to address climate change today.

Moderator: Kimmi Vo, SAIS Graduate ‘20

Panelists: Adrienne Hollis - Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists; Cecilia Turriago (SAIS Alum) - Managing Director, Enercar; Melissa Basque-Roux (SAIS Alum) - Gender and Energy Specialist, IFC

As changing weather patterns affect resource availability, health, and labor, the economic costs of climate change are set to increase, making development goals more difficult to attain. Speakers will discuss how these factors interact with each other and what this means for adapting to future climate challenges.

Moderator: Dr. Sarah Marie Jordaan, Assistant Professor, SAIS

Panelists: Natalie Elwell - Senior Gender Advisor, World Resources Institute; Kari Hatcher (SAIS Alum) - Energy Analyst, U.S. Department of State; A. Tianna Scozzaro - Director, Gender, Equity & Environment Program, Sierra Club

In recent years a growing number of countries have announced their intentions to adopt a feminist approach to their foreign relations practices. Panelists will discuss what feminist foreign policy looks like in response to the major international events of the last year, where there are opportunities to implement a gender lens to international relations and how communities around the world could benefit from such an approach.

Moderator: Dr. Chiedo Nwankwor, Director, SAIS Women Lead

Panelists: Sahana Dharmapuri - Director, Our Secure Future, One Earth Foundation; Rebecca Turkington - Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge

The relationship between national women leaders and their effectiveness in handling the pandemic has received much media attention. Join us for a conversation with the authors of research focused on this relationship between gender and governance during the COVID 19 crisis. The panelists will discuss their paper's findings and implications.

Moderator: Isadora Schaller, Deputy Director of Events, SAIS GWL

Panelists: Uma Kambhamptati - Professor of Economics, University of Reading; Supriya Garikipati - Professor of Economics, University of Liverpool