Marni Sommer, Author at Women's eNews

Marni Sommer

Marni Sommer is an associate professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She is a public voices fellow with the OpEd Project. Check out the books she has published with adolescent girls in low-income countries about menstruation and puberty.

World Bankers: Please Study Menstruation Costs

By Marni Sommer & Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● April 16, 2015

At the spring meeting I hope World Bankers will decide to study the toll it takes when girls and women have no handy bathrooms to change napkins and tampons. We need this data to push nations and communities to improve the supply of water and toilets in workplaces.

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