WomenLift Health’s Global Advisory Board is comprised of members selected for their recognized leadership, vision, integrity, expertise and ability to represent the perspectives of women and men from across the global health and development community. There is growing recognition that women leaders are an important part of the future – women bring new perspectives, priorities and leadership styles that deliver results. Our Global Advisory Board will champion the advancement of women in health. We are committed to maintaining a highly diverse Board as reflected here.
Rohini Anand
Founder and CEO,
Rohini Anand LLC
Tamar Manuelyan Atinc
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution
Paurvi Bhatt
Healthcare Executive
Independent Advisor
Rumbidzai Chisenga
Candidate, Master in Public Administration 2024, Harvard University
Rt Hon Helen Clark
Former Administrator, United Nations Development Programme, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Samukeliso Dube
Executive Director
FP2030
Monica Geingos
First Lady of the Republic of Namibia
Githinji Gitahi
Global CEO,
Amref Health Africa
Yasmin Ali Haque
Global Advisory Board Chair & Former UNICEF Representative India
Dorcas K. Makgato
Botswana’s Ambassador to
Australia, former Minister
of Trade and Industry in Botswana
Matshidiso Moeti
Regional Director for Africa,
World Health Organization
(Observer)
Sia Nowrojee
Senior Director, Girls & Women Strategy
United Nations Foundation
Zainab Samad
Professor of Medicine
Chair, Department of Medicine,
Aga Khan University
Soumya Swaminathan
Chairperson,
Board of Trustees,
MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai
Professor Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, FRS, FMedSci
DAE- Homi Bhabha Chair Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore
Anita Zaidi
President of Gender Equality Division,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Michele Barry
Founder & Honorary Board Member, WomenLift Health;
Senior Associate Dean, Stanford Global Health
Former Global Advisory Board Members
Meet past members of the WomenLift Health Global Advisory Board.
Ravi Verma
Regional Director,
International Center for Research on Women
Suzanne Ehlers
Executive Director
and CEO,
USA for UNHCR
Caroline Kwamboka
Trustee & Founding Director,
African Renaissance
Patty Garcia
Professor, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia,
Former Minister of Health, Peru
Jeremy Farrar
Chief Scientist,
World Health Organization
Geeta Rao Gupta
Ambassador-at-Large Global Women’s Issues
Mandeep Dhaliwal
Director, HIV, Health and Development,
United Nations Development Programme
Jocalyn Clark
International Editor,
The BMJ
Ayoade Alakija
Special Envoy for the ACT-Accelerator,
World Health Organization
Preethi Herman
Co-Founder & Chair
Nguvu Collective
Blen A. Sahilu
Human Rights Lawyer;
Women’s Rights Advocate, Ethiopia
Senait Fisseha
Director of Global Programs,
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Ruth Kagia
Deputy Chief of Staff, Policy and Strategy
Office of the President of Kenya
