Health and Nutrition Workshop
Health and Nutrition Workshop Report by Neha Mustafi Women's Study Centre, Jesus and Mary College conducted a workshop for the first-year members of the society on “Women’s Health and Nutrition” in collaboration with TheaCare, a women’s health companion, working at the intersection of “Fem- tech” (technology for women’s health) and scientific and medical research about women’s health. The workshop was conducted by Swarnima Bhattacharya- Founder Thea Care and the curator the Femme Con- India's first women’s health festival. Swarnima Bhattacharya opened the workshop by mentioning a few facts and figures which reflected the condition of gender- specialized research in the field of medicine and science. “It was only as late as 2003 that the FDA(Food and Drug Administration) made it mandatory for women to be included in medical research and it was only in 1990 that the National Institute of Health, the main body for medical health research made it mandatory for gender to be a ...