National Course on Violence Against Women and the Role of Health Care Providers (HCPs)

Over the years, CEHAT has developed a robust, gender transformative curriculum that highlights the complex links between health, violence and role of responders in tackling VAW. This course is designed to provide participants an understanding of gender-based violence as a health and human rights issue, and to train them to identify and respond to the specific needs of the survivors. It aims to address the existing gender gaps in medical education, and the biases inherent to the healthcare system. The course curriculum has evolved from the learnings of CEHAT’s Dilaasa initiative and further developed through collaborations with health care professionals. The intensive course provides an intensive understanding on gender, patriarchy, intersectionality, human rights, ethics, inter-linkages between violence and health, and skill building for responding to survivors of violence. Facilitators use a combination of participatory methods and tools ranging from lectures, group discussions to role play, films, case studies. Several HCPs across different Indian states have been trained over years.

The course is designed for doctors, nurses, researchers, health activists, and other HCPs

Course Objectives

• Understand violence as a public health and human rights issue.
• Understand discrimination based on caste, class, community and gender
• Understand the health consequences of VAW
• Identify the role of health professionals in dealing with victims of violence from a public health and ethics perspective
• Build specific skills required to communicate with victims of violence
• Understand the need of inter-sectoral coordination like, legal, police, shelter and other organisations