🇷🇼There's Nothing Healthy about Gender Inequality: Understanding the gender-dynamics of health & health care in Rwanda. 🇷🇼

The social determinants of health are complicated, interconnected, and tremendously important for measuring and shaping health outcomes for everyone.  Researchers talk a lot about how good housing, good food, and good air all lead towards better health.  But what about gender?  Germaine Tuyisenge explains why gender matters so much for the health and well-being of all - by sharing with us her research in Rwanda.  

Germaine Tuyisenge is a Ph.D. candidate in health geography at Simon Fraser University. She also holds an M.A. in health geography from Western University, Canada. Germaine is a also Fellow of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Scholarship (Kenya, 2015). Her research focuses on micro-level dynamics that facilitate women’s access to health services in resource-limited settings. Prior to undertaking graduate studies, Germaine worked with government and non-government institutions in Rwanda (her home country), Kenya, The Netherlands, and Canada. This work has focused on community health promotion, sexual and reproductive health, and women’s access to health services. Germaine is interested in building a research career dedicated to exploring the social determinants of health and using community-based practices to eliminate health inequities experienced by marginalized women.

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