Devex: A momentum for gender equality #7 in Devex ‘Biggest global health moments of 2017’

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 executive director of Women in Global Health suggests, old habits die hard. A number of photos circulated this year on social media showing mostly all-male panels at global health conferences and meetings. Calls for change have grown louder. The infamous photo of WHO’s Tedros in a meeting with World Bank President Jim Yong with mostly males at the discussion table sparked a huge outcry on social media early this year, prompting the WHO chief to admit they “need to do better.”

Biggest global health moments of 2017
By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 21 December 2017