Women Leaders in Global Health Conference 2020
Connect | Commit | Act
13-15 October 2020
From 13-15 October, WomenLift Health convened the fourth annual Women Leaders in Global Health (WLGH) Conference. This year’s conference took place in a virtual format, providing an opportunity to reach a broader audience, elevate new voices and facilitate geography-specific discussion, while maintaining the sense of global community, learning and passion that has characterized the conferences since their start.
The theme of this year’s conference is Connect | Commit | Act. More than 2,000 people from 50 countries came together to shape a collective vision for global health, where diverse women have a seat at the decision-making table.
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Agenda
Women Leaders in Global Health 2020 took place over the course of three days, with three hours of dynamic sessions and speakers each day. There were two distinct days on women’s leadership in South Asia and Africa, culminating in a day of global dialogue.
Thank you to our International Steering Committee & Content Development Group:
International Steering Committee
Renu Swarup
Co-Chair of WLGH-ISC, Secretary, Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
Shobana Kamineni
Co-Chair of WLGH-ISC, Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited
Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
Former Chief Humanitarian Coordinator, Nigeria
Michele Barry
Founder, WomenLife Health; Senior Associate Dean & Director, Stanford Global Health
Amie Batson
Chair, WLGH 2020 Content Development Group; Executive Director, WomenLift Health
Agnes Binagwaho
Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity
Kent Buse
Director, Global Healthier Societies Program, The George Institute for Global Health
Jocalyn Clark
Executive Editor, The Lancet
Roger Glass
Director, National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center
Glenda Gray
President & CEO, South African Medical Research Council
Gagandeep Kang
Professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
Heidi Larson
Director, Vaccine Confidence Project; Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, LSHTM
Soumya Swaminathan
Chief Scientist, World Health Organization
Ravi Verma
Regional Director, International Center for Research on Women – Asia Regional Office
Fiona Watt
Director of the Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London
Anita Zaidi
Director of Vaccine Development and Surveillance, and Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Content Development Group
Amie Batson
Chair, WLGH 2020 Content Development Group; Executive Director, WomenLift Health
Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
Former Chief Humanitarian Coordinator, Nigeria
Shereen Bhan
Program Content Lead, WomenLift Health
John Cape
Vice President of Programs, Global Health Corps
Nazneen Damji
Policy Advisor, Gender Equality, HIV, and Health, UN Women
Roopa Dhatt
Executive Director and Co-Founder, Women in Global Health
Desta Lakew
Global Director of Partnerships and External Affairs, Amref Health Africa
Purnima Menon
Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
Iris Mwanza
Director, Community Health Roadmap
Anjali Nayyar
Executive Vice President, Global Health Strategies
Sania Nishtar
Special Assistant of Pakistan’s Prime Minister; Federal Minister, Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Ministry; Chairperson BISP
Nanlop Ogbureke
Senior Advisor, West African Health Organization/Economic Community of West African States
Manisha Shridhar
Regional Advisor, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia
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