ESCMID Parity Commission

• to improve gender representation and geographic balance within ESCMID and related educational activities;
• to tutor young female scientists and scientists from resources-poor countries and from minority groups;
• to link ESCMID and national societies to bridge the gap of gender, economical status and ethnicity.

• Evelina Tacconelli (Chair), ESCMID Professional Affairs Officer ID
• Mario Poljak (Chair), ESCMID Professional Affairs Officer CM
• Nur Benzonana, ESCMID Advocate for Minorities
• Laetitia Kortbeek, ESCMID Advocate for Gender Balance
• Dan Otelea, ESCMID Advocate for Geographic Balance

The Commission has a number of activities planned for the coming months:

• Obtaining statistical data from ESCMID/ECCMID
• Conducting a survey on how to define the entity of discrimination (country; gender; minorities) among ID/CM specialists in their employment and roles within universities and hospitals in Europe Parity Survey
  
• Elaboration of articles and editorials to increase the awareness of the presence of discrimination in the scientific community (ID/CM)
• Increase the awareness through elaboration of data and articles
• Closely collaborate with Trainee Association of ESCMID and the ESCMID Education Officer concerning educational activities
• Participate in the organisation of ECCMID and other ESCMID Scientific events (advisory role)
• Guidance on how to balance the scientific programme of ESCMID-related educational events Guidance document
• Involve editors of major ID/CM journals
• Provide guidance for mentoring and tutoring programmes.

Minorities among healthcare workers are those discriminated in their professional career and/or underrepresented in scientific societies because of gender, age, sexual orientation, racial, regional, religious and/or political reasons without consideration of their personal achievements.