Connecting for innovation and equity in global health
Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Global Health’s Infectious Diseases Across a Woman’s Lifespan Course is a unique, intensive four-day in-person course on sex differences in global infectious diseases, host immunology across the woman’s lifespan, treatment, prevention, and social determinants that contribute to poorer health outcomes for women. Apply by January 15; The course is from May 19–22, 2025.
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Join Alliance member Africa Health Business (AHB) for their 2nd Africa Women’s Health Symposium in Accra, Ghana with a focus on A New Dawn of Partnerships for Women’s Health. This event highlights opportunities to advocate to elevate women’s health in health system decision making, act through partnership to eliminate barriers to healthcare access for women, and advance existing innovations and initiatives to better women’s health on the continent.
Join Alliance member Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign for a panel discussion focused on the trends, opportunities, and challenges surrounding advancing pediatrics and women’s health through innovation. The panel includes three incredible innovators including Marta Arenas-Jal, PhD, Dr. Anuradha Dayal, MD, and Juliana Perl.
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Join Alliance member Pathfinder this International Women’s Day as they celebrate all the women and girls they serve and all their women partners who are the driving force behind healthy families, resilient communities, and strong health systems.
Join Rise Up and Women’s Funding Network for an inspiring and interactive conversation with feminist leaders from around the world to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8. They’ll discuss how they’re strengthening global gender equity and justice and ways for you to get involved. The event is free and open to the public.
Join Alliance member UCSF for a conversation with infectious disease doctor Monica Gandhi. She’ll discuss her new book, Endemic: A Post-Pandemic Playbook, which addresses the importance of biomedical advances and harm reduction strategies in ensuring equitable responses to current and future pandemics. Dr. Monica Gandhi is an expert in infectious diseases, specializing particularly in the care of patients with HIV and AIDS.
Join the Mastercard Foundation and the WILD Network for their 2024 Women’s Global Leadership Forum. The event will equip attendees with the tools and inspiration necessary to fulfill their leadership potential and be a changemaker in their arena. Attendees will gain transformative insights to be more effective in their work and to foster a culture of inclusive leadership within their organization and across the industry.
This convening is poised as one of the largest platforms dedicated to addressing the multifaceted challenges impeding women’s progress in leadership roles in global health. This in-person convening is positioned to build networks and leadership skills, mentor, inspire, empower and champion women leaders to catalyze global action to close the gender gap in health leadership.
More than 4.5 million women and babies die annually during or immediately after childbirth, according to a recent United Nations report. Most of these deaths are preventable with access to quality care. The Bay Area Global Health Alliance, together with Merck for Mothers, convened a small group of members in April 2023 to discuss the challenges and opportunities of ensuring safe delivery in both urban and rural impoverished communities. The cross-sectoral Alliance members that were engaged in discussing possible options to reduce those abysmal statistics included CCBRT in Tanzania and Chidamoyo Hospital in Zimbabwe, and representatives from Antara International, Maya Health Alliance, Simprints, UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, and the World Telehealth Initiative.