Wesam Mansour

Project title: Exploring and addressing workplace sexual harassment in the health sector in Egypt.

Wesam’s work explores and addresses workplace sexual harassment (WSH) in the health sector in Egypt. Workplace sexual harassment negatively impacts women both physically and psychologically, causing job dissatisfaction, absenteeism, higher turnover, and poor service delivery. Having an adequate, supported, and productive workforce is critical to maintaining quality healthcare; central to this is ensuring the safety of female health workers (FHWs). This mixed-methods study explores WSH in healthcare organisations in Egypt, using self-administered questionnaires, in-depth interviews with FHWs, and key informant interviews with stakeholders. It aims to identify priority interventions to address WSH in a future participatory action research ‘participatory action research’ (PAR) study.