WHAW - Women's Health Awareness Week

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Date: 26/May/2025 Time: 09:00 - 02/Jun/2025 Time: 13:00

Place:

BSC and others

2025-05-26 09:00:00 2025-06-02 13:30:00 Europe/Madrid WHAW - Women's Health Awareness Week For details, click on the following event link: https://www.bsc.es/news/events/whaw-womens-health-awareness-week ---

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The Bioinfo4Women programme of BSC organises the Women’s Health Awareness Week (WHAW) in the framework of the International Day of Action for Women's Health (28th May).
Bioinfo4women has organised several activities this week to raise awareness of gendered health and disease problems.
 
See poster here.

AGENDA (in PDF here)

Monday 26th May-09:00h - 13:00h at BSC 1-2-1

Training with Mutua Terrassa

  • Title: “Dimensión de Sexo y Género en investigación médica”
  • Trainers: Atia Cortés, María Flores and María Morales.
  • Venue: Room 1-2-1 BSC (registrations already closed)
  • Time: 09:00h - 13:00h CEST
  • Language: Spanish
  • Organisers: BSC and Mutua Terrassa

Informative pills about women’s health and recent policies surrounding them.

  1. Banned words in scientific research.
  2. Databases and sex/gender categorisation.
  3. Differences in comorbidities between men and women.
     

Wednesday 28th May- 17:30h - 19:30h at “Sala Marie Curie” at the PRBB

●    Round table: “Biaixos de gènere i racialització en la recerca biomèdica i la intel·ligència artificial.”
○    Speakers:
Maisa Sally-Anna Perk. Playwright and actress. She has direct experience with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), with multidisciplinary monologue on undiagnosed chronic diseases.
Dra. Carme Valls-Llobet. Physician and expert in gender bias in medicine. University of Barcelona.
Dra. Paula Petrone. Lead researcher of the Digital Health Unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
○    Chair/moderator: Clàudia Fernández, science communicator at ISGlobal.

●    Organisers: Co-organised by the BSC, PRBB, ISGlobal and PRISMA, in the frame of the AHEAD and INCLUDE projects.
●    Venue: Sala Marie Curie, Parc Recerca Biomèdica Barcelona.
●    Time: 17:30h - 19:30h CEST
●    Language: Spanish and Catalan

●    Registration link (mandatory, limited capacity): https://t.co/R4cDAI9zxZ
 

Thursday 29th May, 09:0h - 11:00h at Espai Pujades, Barcelona

Round table at the XXIè Congrés de la Societat Catalanobalear de Medicina Interna
●    Round table: “Perspectiva de gènere en medicina interna”
●    Speakers:
Mercè Botinas. Family physician of the ICS and disseminator and trainer in medicine with a sex and gender perspective.
Maria Rosa Ballester. Head of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Impact Agent at the Sant Pau Research Institute.
Alba Jené Sanz. Coordinator of the Life Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

●    Organisers: Societat Catalanobalear de Medicina Interna.
●    Venue: Espai Pujades, Barcelona.
●    Time: 09:30h - 11:00h CEST
●    Language: Catalan
●    Event link:  https://www.scmi.org/?p=page/html/detallactivitat/id/27581/codi_entitat/027/tipus_entitat/s Only open for congress participants.

 

Monday 2 June, 12:00-13:00 at BSC Auditorium and hybrid

Closing Seminar

●    Title: “Women in health: Similar, different, unequal or discriminated? The case of cardiovascular disease”
●    Speaker: Héctor Bueno. Cardiology Department of Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid. Researcher at the Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Center (CNIC)
●    Host: Maria Jose Rementeria. Social Link Analytics Life Sciences Group, BSC
●    Venue: hybrid at the BSC Auditorium (Zoom registration)
●    Time: 12:00h - 13:30h CEST
●    Language: English
●    Event link (abstract and free on-line participation registration link): https://www.bsc.es/research-and-development/research-seminars/sors-women-health-similar-different-unequal-or-discriminated-the-case-cardiovascular-disease