The Centre for Global Health at University of Oslo has established a national chapter of the global movement Women in Global Health to become a platform to connect, further strengthen…

In order to showcase women’s leadership in global health, Ilona Kickbusch from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva launched a Twitter campaign to collect nominations of women…

The UN HLM Multi-stakeholder Meeting on 29 April, 2019, inspired a newly formed group Alliance for Gender Equality and Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Co-Convenors: International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), Women…

The #WGHSweden list highlights Swedish women in global health who are working towards better health for their communities.

UNFPA Somalia and the Somali Institute for Development Research and Analysis (SIDRA) have partnered with the global movement Women in Global Health to launch Women in Global Health Somalia. On…

Benjamin Mason Meier is an Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School’s O’Neill Institute for National…

Without a doubt, women led the way in 2017. We raised our voices and joined together to advocate for human rights and dignity for every person. From the “Silence Breakers”…

Just before the year ended, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced another set of officials to join his leadership team; nearly all of them women. The list of…

It was year marked by some wins for gender equality in global health, from senior appointments at WHO to the launch of several initiatives. But as Roopa Dhatt, co-founder and…

The paper distils results from a review of relevant literature and two gender analyses to highlight reasons for gender imbalances in senior roles in global health and ways to address…