FEM2020 was a conglomeration of conversations on women and health, a dialogue between medical practitioners, social scientists, mental health professionals, lawyers and activists.

At FEM2020 we think it is important to understand science as a social institution. Further, it is important to see scientific knowledge as produced within social contexts and not being entirely value neutral as it is portrayed in the public discourse. We recognise that our medical education does not equip practioners to be socially senstive in their practice. Hence, physicians struggle to grapple with these complexities in their clinics. At FEM2020 , we attempt to address and fill this gap between training and practise.

We believe that medical science deals with people and naturally requires close interaction between physicians and patients, both of who carry their own values and beliefs which can often be in conflict with each other. How then do we ensure good care and cure that promotes a sense of well being in the individual and in the society at large? It is our aim to collectively dwell on this.

More specifically, FEM2020 was an effort to examine GENDER bias in health and medicine, particularly in the field of endocrinology.

Through these conversations we hope to develop critical and reflexive perspectives in the practice of medicine at multiple levels of pedagogy, practice and research.