Thread by @OneHealthUF

#WhoIsSHE? Resilient Women during the #COVID19 Pandemic

In this unprecedented time, we must get comfortable with the uncomfortable and become responsibly informed. This thread will be a virtual space where we can learn of some of the many women fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

#WhoIsSHE: Maria Van Kerkhove
(@mvankerkhove)

She is the head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit and she is studying the patters of transmission of zoonoses viruses, respiratory viruses and emerging viruses, like #COVID19. youtube.com/watch?v=UqNLj1…

#WhoIsSHE: Dr. Zhang Xiao-Chun
Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

One of the first frontline doctors to publicly push for using CT scan as the main diagnostic criteria for #COVID19.

nyti.ms/38dFtzZ

#WhoIsSHE: Narges Khanalizadeh

The 25-year-old nurse from Lahijan, who became the first victim of coronavirus among Iran’s health workers.

#WhoIsSHE: Mariluce Mariá

Resident of Complexo do Alemão, a group of favelas in Brazil, and the founder of the NGO Favela Art, calls for support and reform in the government so residents of favelas can prepare and survive #COVID19.

Read more: nacla.org/news/2020/03/3…

#WhoIsSHE: Yolanda Díaz, Labour Minister of Spain
@Yolanda_Diaz_
 
Yolanda is working hard to protect the economy and the health of Spain’s citizens. She is aware of the gender inequalities in the workplace, which impact who remains at work and can’t afford basic needs.

#WhoIsSHE: Gita Ramjee, a South African scientist renowned for her work to expand women’s access to HIV treatment and prevention, died March 31 from complications related to COVID-19. Ramjee was the chief scientific officer of the @Auruminstitute.