India
Founded:
The Women in Global Health, India Chapter was founded officially in January 2019, encouraged by the co-founders desire to share their journey towards gender equality in health leadership in India. From a handful of initial members, in a couple of years we have grown into a family of nearly 60 volunteers, and have achieved great strides in the last year.
Our aims
The aim of WGH India is to create a synergistic ecosystem to build gender transformative leadership in healthcare by promoting diversity in policy making. It seeks to recognize the knowledge held by frontline workers and marginalized vulnerable groups, and amplify these voices – to have their opinions, best practices, challenges and recommendations heard via dialogues, research, and advocacy which feed into policy making.
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Our work
In 2020 we launched an ‘Amplifying women’s contributions in COVID-19 response in India’ campaign. We collected stories of women’s contributions and hosted a five part series of 11 webinars focusing on challenges and contributions of frontline health workers in COVID-19 in India.
Our members
We are hosted by Chitkara School of Health Sciences, Chitkara University, Chandigarh,India. Four co-founders of WGHI are currently serving leadership roles supported by a core working group of volunteers:
- Dr. Preethi John – Chair
- Dr Sai Subhashree Raghavan – Mentorship and training lead
- Sapna Kedia – Research and advocacy lead
- Sumegha Asthana – Strategy & Partnerships lead
- Deepika Saluja – Research and events lead
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Words matter: political and gender analysis of speeches made by heads of government during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mar 26, 2021
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on political leadership around the world. Differences in how leaders address the pandemic through public messages have practical implications for building trust…
Community Health Workers want lasting social contracts, not endless recognition
Jun 21, 2022
Women are 70% of health workers across the world, lead and shoulder a significant proportion of the pandemic response, and play key roles in health systems all over the world. …
India’s one million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) win the Global Health Leaders award at the 75th World Health Assembly: Time to move beyond rhetoric to action?
Jul 5, 2022
Article by SumeghaAsthana & KaveriMayra on The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia
