Episode 2: “How has COVID-19 Impacted Women’s Health?”

“One thing that COVID-19 has done is it has brought attention to sex and gender like we’ve never seen it before…” – Dr. Rosemary Morgan

In this episode, Sidney and Rebecca sit down with gender, intersectionality, and health systems expert, Dr. Rosemary Morgan. We dig into how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everything from women’s physical and mental health to their professional lives. We also look at how the pandemic has fueled setbacks on gender equality initiatives within our health systems. Plus, Dr. Morgan breaks down what the science has to say about the pandemic’s longer term health impacts, where we’re still waiting for answers, and what we can do moving forward.

Links to the resources mentioned in this episode:

• Gender and COVID 19 Working Group 
• Global health 5050 

Links to further reading material:

• Beyond a zero-sum game: How does the impact of COVID-19 vary by gender?
• Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic: A review 
• The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the care burden of women and families

Guest Biography:

Dr. Rosemary Morgan is an Associate Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a gender, intersectionality and health systems expert that also leads the Sex and Age Differences in Immunity to Influenza Project.