Washington DC/ Chapel Hill, North Carolina/ Geneva — Health services don’t deliver themselves. It is the nurse who triages in the emergency department, the midwife who delivers babies and cares…

While an estimated 70%–75% of the health workforce are women, this is not reflected in the leadership roles of most health organisations—including global decision-making bodies such as the World Health…

The COVID-19 pandemic was a stress test for the health sector, which is one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world, and also one of the largest employers…

Mônica Batista Teixeira recebeu o prêmio Heroínas da Saúde pelo trabalho contra a Covid no Amazonas  

Katherine is joined by Ann Keeling, Senior Fellow with Women in Global Health and lead author of WGH’s new policy brief, Subsidizing Global Health: Women’s Unpaid Work in Health Systems. Neglecting…

We need to ensure that diversity is shaping and influencing global health decision-making and this is what we mean when we call for gender transformative leaders, said Dr. Roopa Dhatt,…

Egypt’s former Minister of Health and Population, and the country’s first female health minister, Maha El-Rabbat received the Heroine of Health Award at the World Health Summit on 17 October 2022.

Woman health workers are the backbone of medical care across much of the world, so why are they treated so poorly?

Global health security and women’s rights are being undermined by the lack of payment or gross underpayment of women health workers, according to a new report from Women in Global…

Born and raised in Mali, Dr. Mariam has dedicated her life to caring for the health of her community, particularly regarding child mortality. When it came to university, Mariam initially…