Dr. Roopa Dhatt is the executive director of Women in Global Health, the founder of Heroines of Health and one of the coordinators of the 100-organization-strong Alliance for Gender Equality and Universal Health Coverage.
The jobs of women health workers — like the 12 being honored as 'Heroines of Health' July 19 in Kigali, Rwanda — are more at risk than ever in the context of a global pushback on women’s rights and rise of so-called family values.
COVID-19 has surfaced long standing fault lines in the way health care is provided and managed. Women’s limited access to testing, in particular, threatens to undermine the global goal of universal health coverage, write two global health experts.
Funding in the development sector continues to fail women: too little is changing too slowly, because women do not have an equal role in decision-making, write Dr. Roopa Dhatt and Rachel Firth in this op-ed.
Three leaders from Women in Global Health outline five steps that WHO's Executive Board can take during this week's meeting to make progress toward gender equality.
Ahead of elections for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, Women in Global Health experts explore why, after nearly 70 years of male leadership, the office should elect a woman to take the lead.