Table 3.

Selected recommendations with public health and mental health implications

Recommendations	Implications
Gender-responsive COVID-19 programming	✓ Consider GBV a public health issue ✓ Increased dedicated funding for survivor services and supports ✓ Ensure women and girls have access to protections during crises ✓ Implement codes of conduct in place to address the endemic violence against female health workers and sexual harassment in the health sector ✓ Engage in multisectoral strategic responses—health, housing
Intersectional and critical race lenses to emergency health responses	✓ Include diversity of voices and perspectives from Black and Indigenous communities, and other racialized population, to ensure equity and comprehensive pandemic and post-pandemic responses ✓ Recognize the existence of differentiated primary and secondary effects of the health emergency on marginalized people ✓ Apply anti-racism, anti-oppression, and equity policy to service provision
Disaggregated data collection	✓ Collect disaggregated data—race, gender, sex, ethnicity, age, disability, occupation, socioeconomic status, migratory status, geopolitical location
Mental health	✓ Expand access points to mental health services ✓ Conduct mental health audits and inequality impact assessments
GBV referral	✓ Update referral pathways and promote institutional multisectoral collaborations

Abbreviations: GBV, gender-based violence