Harvard Taking Care of Women in Times of Conflict, Upheaval, and Epidemics 2024

Global Women’s Health in Limited-Resource Settings

• Overview of global obstetrics and gynecologic health as a rapidly growing field
• Critical OB/GYN issues affecting women in resource-poor nations
• Understanding gender inequality as a contributor to women’s health disparities
• Approaches to improving health outcomes in limited-resource settings
• Clinical issues affecting women during conflict, upheaval, and epidemics
• Multidisciplinary models for providing care in low-resource environments
• Practical tools for clinicians working in global women’s health

Women’s Healthcare in War and Chronic Crisis

• Working as a women’s healthcare provider during war
• Identifying needs in women and children during armed conflict
• Caring for women in chronic crisis settings
• Lessons from Haiti and other crisis-affected regions
• Understanding maternal and infant health needs during displacement
• Pregnancy and postpartum care during humanitarian instability
• Clinical and public health strategies for crisis-response women’s care

Epidemics, Pandemics and Reproductive Health

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on reproductive health services
• Lessons learned from reproductive health disruptions in Ghana and Uganda
• Preparing for future pandemics affecting pregnant women
• Maintaining reproductive health access during epidemics
• Protecting maternal and newborn health during public health emergencies
• Comparing the impact of recent epidemics on pregnant women
• Building resilient systems for women’s health during infectious disease crises

Migrant, Immigrant and Refugee OB/GYN Care

• Migrant and refugee crisis in the United States
• Refugee health and OB/GYN needs in migrant populations
• Managing immigrant and refugee OB/GYN needs
• Language and immigration justice in pregnancy care
• Legal concerns affecting immigrant and refugee women
• Clinical barriers faced by displaced women and families
• Improving access to respectful reproductive and pregnancy care for migrant patients

Building Refugee and Migrant Health Programs

• How to start a refugee and migrant clinic or program
• How to get involved locally in immigrant and refugee health
• Developing community-based care models for displaced women
• Collaborating with legal, social, medical, and public health teams
• Creating patient-centered programs for vulnerable populations
• Practical steps for supporting local immigrant and refugee health initiatives
• Designing sustainable women’s health services in crisis-affected communities

Natural Disasters and Humanitarian Response

• Responding to natural disasters as a women’s healthcare provider
• Role of OB/GYN providers in humanitarian settings
• Assessing women’s health needs during disasters and displacement
• Providing reproductive and pregnancy care during infrastructure disruption
• Coordinating clinical care with relief organizations and community partners
• Maintaining respectful care under emergency conditions
• Improving readiness for women’s health emergencies in crisis settings

Trauma, Mental Health and Maternal Care

• Integrating mental health into maternal health services
• Incorporating trauma care in labor and delivery
• Recognizing psychological effects of conflict and displacement
• Supporting women affected by violence, trauma, and loss
• Building trauma-informed OB/GYN care models
• Improving communication and trust in crisis-affected populations
• Combining mental health, maternal care, and community support services

Maternal Mortality, Respectful Care and Ethics

• Analyzing the fundamental issues of maternal mortality
• Providing high-quality and respectful care to women in limited-resource settings
• Ethical challenges in maternal and newborn health care
• Ethical challenges in research in limited-resource settings
• Respectful maternity care in crisis and resource-poor environments
• Improving equity, dignity, and patient-centered care
• Reducing preventable harm through ethical and culturally responsive practice

Surgical Care and Cervical Cancer Prevention

• Challenges of surgical care in limited-resource settings
• Access barriers to obstetric and gynecologic surgery
• Clinical decision-making when resources are constrained
• Cervical cancer prevention strategies globally
• Screening, prevention, and care delivery challenges in low-resource settings
• Reducing preventable mortality from cervical cancer
• Integrating surgical care and prevention strategies into global women’s health programs

Training, Partnerships and Global OB/GYN Development

• Developing the next generation of women’s healthcare providers
• Academic partnerships to strengthen training
• Global OB/GYN fellowship training challenges and opportunities
• Building educational collaborations across regions
• Training clinicians for work in limited-resource and humanitarian settings
• Improving global women’s health capacity through mentorship and partnership
• Creating sustainable systems for women’s health education and service delivery

This course is best suited for OB/GYN physicians, specialty physicians, psychologists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, primary care physicians, family medicine clinicians, and healthcare professionals interested in global women’s health.

Topics include maternal mortality, respectful care, women’s health in war, humanitarian response, migrant and refugee OB/GYN needs, reproductive health during epidemics, natural disasters, mental health integration, trauma care, surgical care in limited-resource settings, cervical cancer prevention, ethics, and global OB/GYN training.

Yes. The course focuses heavily on women’s health challenges in limited-resource settings, humanitarian settings, crisis-affected regions, displacement, and public health emergencies.

Yes. The course covers migrant and refugee OB/GYN needs, language justice, legal concerns, clinic development, and local involvement in immigrant and refugee health.

Yes. This product is provided as recorded course access so you can review the material at your own pace.

No. CME credits and certificates are not included with this course package.

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