Key Topics

Lectures and workshops will focus on a variety of important topics, that will aim to include low, middle and high resource settings, to consider women’s health in a life-long approach, to examine together somatic, mental and social dimensions of women’s health, and to address gender and social inequities. Crossing disciplines on each topic will enable us to identify multi-faceted solutions on global health issues.

• Reproductive Health: innovations in fertility, endometriosis
• Perinatal Health: pregnancy events in relation to women’s health lifelong
• Lifestyle and nutrition: exploring the role of major pillars of lifestyle (e.g. nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and mental health) on women’s health, assessing precision nutrition-food as new medicine- across lifespan, addressing global nutrition disparity, and mal-nutrition in low- and middle-income countries
• Healthy Ageing
• Cardiovascular Diseases: specificities of cardiovascular diseases in women
• Cancer: Prevention, treatment, and recovery from gynecological cancers
• Women’s Mental Health: Addressing the specific mental health needs of women, including depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders
• Violence against women, including gynecologic and obstetric violence, with a specific focus on physical and psychiatric sequalae of trauma exposure from a life course perspective
• Women’s Health in the context of Climate Change
• Precision Medicine and Women’s Health: Using advanced technologies to tailor treatments to the specific needs of women.
• Translating research into action: The role of public policies, international organizations, voluntary associations and NGOs in promoting women’s health globally
• Education
• Gender inequalities in research and academic carriers