Sophie Harman | Sick of It: the global fight for women’s health
Thu 23 Apr 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Why are women still dying across the world from causes we know how to prevent? In Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women’s Health, shortlisted for the 2025 British Academy Book Prize, award-winning academic Professor Sophie Harman delivers a bold, urgent and eye-opening call to action.
Drawing on frontline case studies – from abortion rights and maternal healthcare to conflict zones and global health policy – Sophie shows how women’s health is repeatedly caught in the crossfire of global politics, misused and neglected by those in power. Clear, accessible and deeply compelling, Sick of It exposes the human cost of political failure while offering smart, practical solutions for change. Join Sophie Harman to explore why this crisis persists, how women’s bodies have become political battlegrounds, and what governments – and all of us – can do to help fix it.
Chaired by journalist Rosie Goldsmith.
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Sophie Harman is a Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London with over fifteen years of experience working on global health politics. She’s worked in / with Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, Geneva and Washington DC, UN Women, the Fawcett Society, and advised the UK govt on the COVID-19 pandemic. She’s written for the Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, The Conversation, and Tortoise, and has appeared as an expert on television and radio for BBC News, BBC Wales, LBC, and BBC Radio 5 Live. In 2016 she was selected to join the BBC’s Expert Women programme. In 2019 she was nominated for a BAFTA for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer for the narrative feature film she co-wrote and produced, Pili.
Chair Biography
Rosie Goldsmith is an English journalist specialising in arts and current affairs in the UK and abroad. In 20 years at the BBC, she travelled and presented the BBC programmes Front Row and Crossing Continents, among others. Countries she has lived in include Germany, France, South Africa and the USA.
