Handbook on Sex, Gender and Health: Perspectives from South Asia (南亞性別與健康手冊)

本手冊是首部針對南亞地區五個國家的健康性別議題的專門著作，這五個國家分別是：孟加拉、印度、巴基斯坦和斯里蘭卡。手冊採用健康的社會決定因素視角，以及交叉性和多樣性觀點，展示了性別、健康和福祉的多層次複雜性，並從不同南亞國家的多元視角和生活經驗中進行探討。它包括對一些未被充分研究且常常被忽視的邊緣化群體的研究，例如LGBTQI群體、城市貧困者、殘障人士、移民及受衝突影響的人口。手冊代表了老年人、青少年和年輕人的聲音。它不僅分析了健康領域中的性別不平等問題，還提供了性別轉型政策、計劃和社會運動行動的範例。這是研究人員、政策制定者、公共衛生學生以及參與與性工作、公共衛生、社會正義和性別暴力相關研究、政策或計劃的社區組織的重要資源。

​TK Sundari Ravindran has more than 40 years of experience as an author and editor internationally. Sundari has more than a 100 publications to her credit, including articles in peerreviewed journals, monographs, book chapters and edited volumes. She is a lead author of several WHO publications on gender and health, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, starting from an early publication in 1984. Sundari is also the editor of a WHO training manual on gender and rights in reproductive health. In 1992, she joined as founding co-editor of the international journal 'Reproductive Health Matters, ' and continued in this position for a little over six years. Sundari is currently a senior editor of the same journal, now renamed 'Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters.' She has co-edited several books, including 'Health inequities in India: A synthesis of recent evidence' by Springer. Sundari has been a guest editor for several journal issues, and a regular reviewer formajor peer reviewed international journals including PLOS One, Global Public Health, BMJ, The Lancet, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, International Journal of Equity in Health, Economic and Political Weekly, and the Indian Journal of Public Health. She has also reviewed book proposals and manuscripts for Springer and Routledge publishers. As a professor at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Sundari has conducted regular workshops for research scholars on scientific writing and publishing.

M. Sivakami is a distinguished academic, researcher and author for over 20 years. She has published widely (90 plus articles) in peer-reviewed national and international journals such as Lancet, PLOS One, BMJ Open, Journal of Global Health, BMC-Public Health, International Journal of Health Policy Management (IJHPM), Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM), Journal of Bio-Social Science (JBS), Asian Population Studies, Health Transition Review, Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Demography India, and Sociological Bulletin among others. She has also published chapters in books published internationally by Springer and Palgrave Macmillan. Sivakami is an Academic Editor in PLOS Global Public Health and on the editorial board of various journals. Sivakami's expertise is in the intersection of Gender, Health and Demography using mixed methodology. As a professor at TISS, Sivakami has been teaching gender and health to public health students for over a decade and believes gender is a significant lens to address health and well-being inequities in India.

Anjana Bhushan retired in June 2024 from the World Health Organization, where she worked, most recently, as Technical Officer (Gender, Equity and Human Rights), in the Department of Family Health/UHC at WHO's Regional Office for South-East Asia. In this capacity, she provided technical leadership and evidence-based advice to WHO's Member States on ways to systematically integrate gender-responsive, equity-enhancing and human rights-based approaches into health policies and programmes and to tackle gender-based violence against women and girls.

From September 2018 to July 2020, as Regional Advisor, Service Delivery Systems in the Health Systems Development Department at WHO's Regional Office for South-East Asia, she provided technical leadership and evidence-based advice to Member States on ways to strengthen the organization, management and delivery of health services that are safe and of acceptable quality.

From February 2017 to September 2018, as Coordinator, Integrated Service Delivery in the Division for Health Systems at WHO's Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Anjana was responsible for collaborating with Member States on designing and equitably delivering integrated, people-centred health services, to progress towards universal health coverage. Earlier, as Coordinator, Equity and Social Determinants in the same division, she coordinated the Regional Office's collaboration with Member States on a range of programme areas, including: mainstreaming equity, gender and human rights into health policies and programmes; the social determinants of health; and ageing and health.

Before joining WHO in 2000, Anjana worked on issues of poverty and gender in health and in development more broadly in various international agencies, including the World Bank, UNDP and ILO. She started her career as a member of the senior civil service in India, where she managed development programmes across a range of sectors for 10 years in the state government of Rajasthan.

She has a Master's degree in Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University.

Sabina Faiz Rashid, PhD, is a Professor and has held the Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair in Health and Poverty at the BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, since September 1, 2023. She previously served as Dean from August 2013 to 2023. With over two decades of experience as a medical anthropologist, Rashid specializes in ethnographic research on health disparities. Her work explores how structural, political, social, and economic factors, alongside gender and poverty, influence the lives, health, and well-being of women, adolescents, and marginalized communities in urban slums, refugee settings, and disadvantaged populations across Bangladesh. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, monographs and reports (3000 + citations; h-index:30), and recently authored a book, Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (May, 2024, Routledge, UK). Rashid also serves on several national and global boards, providing thought leadership and strategic insights, contributing to research and policy development.

Kausar S. Khan Educational background: MA philosophy, Karachi University; MA Philosophy, Mc Master University, Canada; Phd candidate Mc Master University, Canada.

Work Experience: teaching philosophy to undergraduate students of Karachi University; teaching philosophy and religion to O and A Level students of Academy, Karachi. Started working with women in katchi abadis of Karachi (for Family Planning Association of Pakistan). Joined Aga Khan University (AKU) to be part of their endeavor for community-based teaching of undergraduate medical students. Worked in AKU till retirement (2019). Focus of work included: participatory pedagogy for community participation; participatory action research; malnutrition in children under 5, Sindh and Pakistan; women's empowerment in Muslim contexts (5 country study). Committed to the Primary Health Care framework that includes equity and social justice, and Paolo Freire's pedagogy of the poor.

Current positions: Visiting faculty, AKU; part of IRD (interactive research and development, Karachi) initiative for mental health; advisor for community engagement, Ziaudin University's school of nursing and midwifery.

Member of several boards of non-government organizations, Pakistan

Key areas of expertise: participatory methodologies in teaching and practices; teaching gender, public health, social determinants of health, power, equity, research paradigms, ethics, to name some areas of work

TK Sundari Ravindran 擁有超過 40 年的國際作者和編輯經驗。Sundari 擁有超過 100 篇出版物，包括同行評審期刊的文章、專著、書籍章節和編輯卷。她是幾本世界衛生組織（WHO）關於性別與健康的出版物的主要作者，專注於性與生殖健康，最早的出版物可追溯至 1984 年。Sundari 也是 WHO 關於生殖健康中的性別與權利的培訓手冊的編輯。1992 年，她作為創始共同編輯加入國際期刊《Reproductive Health Matters》，並在此職位上持續了六年多。Sundari 目前是該期刊的高級編輯，該期刊現已更名為《Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters》。她共同編輯了幾本書籍，包括 Springer 出版的《Health inequities in India: A synthesis of recent evidence》。Sundari 曾擔任多個期刊特刊的客座編輯，並定期為主要的同行評審國際期刊如 PLOS One、Global Public Health、BMJ、The Lancet、Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters、International Journal of Equity in Health、Economic and Political Weekly 和 Indian Journal of Public Health 進行審稿。她還為 Springer 和 Routledge 出版社審查書籍提案和手稿。作為 Sree Chitra Tirunal 醫學科學與技術研究所的教授，Sundari 定期為研究學者舉辦科學寫作和出版的工作坊。

M. Sivakami 是一位卓越的學者、研究者和作者，擁有超過 20 年的經驗。她在同行評審的國內外期刊上廣泛發表（超過 90 篇文章），如 Lancet、PLOS One、BMJ Open、Journal of Global Health、BMC-Public Health、International Journal of Health Policy Management (IJHPM)、Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM)、Journal of Bio-Social Science (JBS)、Asian Population Studies、Health Transition Review、Economic and Political Weekly、Indian Journal of Medical Ethics、Demography India 和 Sociological Bulletin 等。她還在 Springer 和 Palgrave Macmillan 出版的國際書籍中發表了章節。Sivakami 是 PLOS Global Public Health 的學術編輯，並在多個期刊的編輯委員會中任職。Sivakami 的專業領域是性別、健康與人口學的交集，使用混合方法進行研究。作為 TISS 的教授，Sivakami 已經教授公共衛生學生性別與健康課程超過十年，並認為性別是解決印度健康與福祉不平等的重要視角。

Anjana Bhushan 於 2024 年 6 月從世界衛生組織退休，最近擔任 WHO 東南亞區域辦事處家庭健康/普遍健康覆蓋部的技術官員（性別、平等與人權）。在此職位上，她為 WHO 成員國提供技術領導和基於證據的建議，幫助他們系統性地將性別響應、增強平等和基於人權的方法整合到健康政策和計劃中，並應對針對女性和女孩的性別暴力。

從 2018 年 9 月到 2020 年 7 月，作為 WHO 東南亞區域辦事處健康系統發展部的區域顧問，Anjana 提供技術領導和基於證據的建議，幫助成員國加強健康服務的組織、管理和交付，確保服務安全且質量可接受。

從 2017 年 2 月到 2018 年 9 月，作為 WHO 西太平洋區域辦事處健康系統部的綜合服務交付協調員，Anjana 負責與成員國合作設計和公平交付以人為本的綜合健康服務，以推進普遍健康覆蓋的目標。