Women Leaders in Global Health Conference
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Frequency | Annual |
Website | Official website |
The Women Leaders in Global Health Conference, created by Michele Barry and first held in 2017 at Stanford University in partnership with Women in Global Health, the US National Institutes of Health and others, is an international conference that engages both men and women to address the gender gap in global health leadership.
Thereafter, the conference has taken place annually with the second and third in the UK and Rwanda, respectively. The fourth, in 2020, was virtual.
Origin and purpose
The Women Leaders in Global Health Conference was founded by Michele Barry after she questioned why a panel at an annual Medical Education Partnership Initiative meeting were all men.[1] With the help from one of the men on that panel and in partnership with Women in Global Health, the US National Institutes of Health and others, the conference was created to be international, highlighting new and established women leaders in global health, and engaging both men and women to address the gender gap in global health leadership.[2][3] The first conference was held in 2017 at Stanford University, where it was emphasised that the chief barrier to leadership roles for women was a lack of mentoring.[4] This was confirmed in a study published in Annals of Global Health after surveying 405 delegates. Although mentoring was seen as key to achieving a leadership role, one delegate noted that despite having a male mentor, he still thought of a man when a leadership role arose.[4][5]
Conferences
In 2018, led by
The third conference was held over two days at the
Due to the
See also
References
- ^ Smale, Brian. "Efforts grow to have more women leaders in health care". Stanford Medicine. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ "Women Leader Spotlight: Dr. Michele Barry, Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and Senior Associate Dean for Global Health at Stanford University | womeningh". womeningh. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- PMID 28495255.
- ^ ISBN 9789811531149.
- ^ Simpson, Brian W. "Michele Barry: The Need for More Women Leaders in Global Health". Global Health NOW. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ "Women Leaders in Global Health". LSHTM. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- PMID 31401998.
- ^ "Outrage after visas denied for UK global health conference". Devex. 9 November 2018. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
- ^ a b Zeitvogel, Karin. "Women Leaders in Global Health (WLGH) conference seeks to advance women in global health - Fogarty International Center @ NIH". Fogarty International Center. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ "Dr Claire Bayntun - women leaders insight series". LSHTM. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ a b Nagesh, Shubha (12 November 2019). "Talking about women leadership amongst the mountains". IHP. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ "Women Leaders in Global Health Conference 2019". UGHE. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Harder for Women to Get Grants, Have Results Published: Soumya Swaminathan". The Wire Science. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at Women Leaders in Global Health Conference [as delivered]". United Nations Secretary-General. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
Further reading
- "Women Leaders in Global Health 2018 Report"
- "Women Leaders in Global Health 2019 Report"
- "WLGH Conferences and Archives". WomenLift Health. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- Moyer, Cheryl A.; Abedini, Nauzley C.; Youngblood, Jessica; Talib, Zohray; Jayaraman, Tanvi; Manzoor, Mehr; Larson, Heidi J.; PMID 30779525.