The need for women’s leadership in global health – The Nigeria experience
May 9, 2020
This week’s Thought Leadership piece comes from Women in Global Health (WGH) Nigeria, an organisation that was established to bring visibility and recognition of Nigerian women, shape global health programming…
Delivered by Women, Led by Men: A Gender and Equity Analysis of the Global Health and Social Workforce
Mar 26, 2020
Demographic changes and rising health care demands are projected to drive the creation of 40 million new jobs by 2030 in the global health and social sector. In parallel, there is an…
WGH and FIND Report Release: Health in Their Hands: Testing & Women’s Empowerment Means Better Health For All
Mar 26, 2020
Achievement of Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals will not happen without increased access to testing, particularly in the light of the unprecedented disruption resulting from COVID-19.
Climate change and gender-based health disparities
Mar 26, 2020
All genders differ in their needs, perception, attitudes, and vulnerability to the effects of climate change.1 This difference is notably true for how climate change affects health.2 Although some governmental…
Off the back burner: Diverse and gender-inclusive decision-making for COVID-19 response and recovery
Mar 26, 2020
Epidemics function as a gendered vulnera-bility, and yet gender remains an afterthought in health security and pandemic response, including to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).1 Emerging data indicate that COVID-19 mortality…
Challenges for the female academic during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mar 26, 2020
Science and innovation benefit from diversity. However, as the global community fights COVID-19, the productivity and scientific output of female academics are disproportionately affected, leading to loss of women’s scientific…
A patchwork approach to gender equality weakens the SDGs: time for cross-cutting action
Mar 26, 2020
The journey to realizing women’s and girls’ rights has been a long one. We marked the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration in 2020, committed to the 2000 Millennium Development…
Symptoms of a broken system: the gender gaps in COVID-19 decision-making
Mar 26, 2020
A growing chorus of voices are questioning the glaring lack of women in COVID-19 decision- making bodies. Men dominating leadership positions in global health has long been the default mode…
Heroines in Health at UNGA74
Mar 26, 2020
Honoring women health pioneers is integral to WGH. Heroines of health hold a variety of positions including department heads, nurses, community health workers (CHW), researchers, physicians, policymakers, representatives of INGOs,…
Operation 50/50
Mar 26, 2020
Women in Global Health (WGH), an international NGO working towards gender equity in the field of global health, has crowdsourced a list of over 100 female health security experts.
