CHP PhD Confirmation Seminar - Jordan Hannik Attal

Title: The Gendered Relationship between Housing Situation and Stress-Related Health Outcomes

Supervisors: Prof. Rebecca Bentley, Director, NHMRC Centre of Reserach Excellence in Health Housing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Division of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne; Professor Yehuda Neumark, Director of Graduate Students in the Exact Sciences, Associate Professor, Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Bio: Jordan Hannink Attal is a candidate for the Joint UoM-HUJ Doctoral Programme. She completed her undergraduate degree in Women and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, and her International Masters in Public Health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her primary research interest sits at the intersection of social inequality and health, with a particular interest in gender, poverty, and immigration. Prior to doctoral studies, Jordan worked in the Department of TB and HIV at the Israeli Ministry of Health.

Abstract: 21st-century literature has linked housing conditions—affordability, quality, tenure, and stability—to health issues. Housing experiences differ by gender, impacting both financial and ontological realities. Women, often overrepresented in lower income deciles, may struggle to secure affordable housing, with definitions of “safe and affordable” potentially being gendered. The proposed studies will test the hypothesis that the interplay between housing affordability and quality better explains housing’s effects on health outcomes than affordability alone, applying a gendered lens to interrogate the housing-health relationship.

Date: Thursday 12 December

Time: 6pm - 7pm (AEDT)

For zoom details, please contact chp-enquiries@unimelb.edu.au