Feminist Global Health Policy - Addressing Health Inequalities through an Intersectional Perspective

Health inequalities, primarily driven by the structural determinants of health, are a major concern towards the global goal of health for all. A feminist global health policy has the potential to address the unequal distribution of power and to dismantle these imbalances. The prioritisation of intersectional, holistic, human rights-based approaches intends to advance health equality and reproductive justice. This research examined the contours and potentials of a feminist global health policy by developing a framework. Online focus groups were conducted with participants affiliated to either the global-academic or local-activist level, envisaging global representation. The elaborated framework provides a nexus between the global and the local level, by entailing universal principles as well as recommendations and sensitivity for context-specific adaptations. Community and policymakers are identified as key actors. This research aims to stimulate a debate on feminist global health policy and the potential of this framework with regard to health equality and reproductive justice.

About the author 

Hannah Eger completed both the MSc Public Health and MA Political Science programmes at Bielefeld University. She has worked with several NGOs in the field of Global Health and she is passionate about applying feminist approaches to health policy. Hannah Eger considers herself an intersectional feminist. She is based in Berlin, Germany.