Please join us for the GHKC Lunchtime Webinar Series on Monday, May 18th from 12-1pm. Sarah Shannon, Executive Director of Hesperian Health Guides, will be talking about their new book Health Actions for Women.

To join the webinar on the 18th, please go to: https://connect.johnshopkins.edu/ghkc_women/.

Description: Hesperian Health Guides is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing low-literacy health content, available in many formats and languages. Through accessibly written and heavily illustrated information, Hesperian strives to support communities as they take action to improve their health and and address underlying causes of poor health. Hesperian's flagship publication, Where There Is No Doctor, has been translated into over 80 languages, and content on additional topics includes primary care, health worker training, gender, early childhood development, environmental health, workplace health and safety, HIV/AIDS, and NCDs.

Health Actions for Women: Practical Strategies to Mobilize for Change is a new publication developed to support work around family planning, pregnancy, maternal, child and newborn health, gender, SGBV, HIV/AIDS, and community health. Through accessible language and engaging illustrations, Health Actions provides strategies, activities, and stories from successful health projects around the world that are working to address the many social barriers to good health for women and girls. Field tested with 41 community-based groups in 23 countries, this resources helps women, girls, men, and boys to challenge violence against women, improve access to family planning, foster safe motherhood, counteract the harmful effects of restrictive gender roles, promote strategies for achieving better sexual health, and ensure that health services meet the needs of women and girls.

During this webinar, Hesperian's Executive Director Sarah Shannon (co-author of Health Actions for Women) will share insights into the development process of this new resource and provide examples of how it can be used to support programming to improve the health of women and girls.

Speaker: Sarah Shannon is the Executive Director of Hesperian Health Guides, where she has led the development and publication of multiple accessible, field tested publications in print and digital formats, including four women's health titles. She is the Co-Author of Health Actions for Women, Hesperian's most recent publication. She has extensive experience in community health training and popular education through 15 years of work in Central America, is a founding member of the People's Health Movement, and is a recipient of the 2015 Ruth Roemer Social Justice Award, the 2013 Dory Storms Child Survival Award, and the Mid Career Award of the American Public Health Association's International Health Section.