Women in Global Health Germany

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 working in the forefront of global health around the world. The list of 100 Women Leaders in Global Health was published in December 2014. After a commentary in The Lancet further nominations followed and in 2015 the list of 300 Women Leaders in Global Health was compiled and published. During this time, Dr. Roopa Dhatt Dr. Desiree Lichtenstein, Caitlin Jackson and Kristina Ronsin founded the movement and organization Women in Global Health, which is a movement for gender equality in global health leadership and supports women in global health with the end of goal of achieving improved and more sustainable health worldwide.