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SFU Change Makers: Julia Smith
Why are women more stressed and anxious than men during COVID-19? A #CIHR funded study by SFU professor Julia Smith looks at how the pandemic is impacting genders differently in this week's episode of SFU Changemakers, hosted by Joy Johnson. Smith highlights the huge burden women are facing these days and how her research can inform policy changes that address structural inequities in outbreak response.
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New York TimesOnline
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/women-coronavirus-greater-risk.html
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Biography
Dr. Julia Smith is an interdisciplinary social scientist trained in policy analysis and political economy, with a focus on gender and health inequities. She has over 15 years’ experience working with health and development programs in Canada, Europe and Africa, and frequently works in consultation with government and civil society at both the local and global level. Smith’s research centres around the social, political and commercial determinants of health, often applying an intersectional feminist and critical political economy lens to better understand the intersections between policy fields and how they structure health inequities. She is deeply interested in the care economy, gender dynamics of the health and social assistance sector, intersectionality-based policy analysis and Canadian foreign policy. A qualitative researcher, Smith has worked with mixed methods team to conduct robust and innovative analysis of pandemic response, Indigenous Peoples’ health, tobacco control policy and global health governance.