Dr. Shirin Heidari is Senior Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a Senior Technical Consultant on Gender and Health, at the World Health Organization, Gender, Equity and Human Rights Unit. She is also the founding president of GENDRO, an association with the mission to advance gender-sensitive research.
Most recently, Dr. Heidari was the Executive Director of Reproductive Health Matters (RHM), and Editor-in-Chief of its peer-reviewed journal.
Following her presentation at IARC's International Women's Day Symposium 2019, she spoke briefly about barriers to gender inequality in research & science, as well as implicit gender biases.
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