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Dr. Magda Robalo

Dr. Magda Robalo is the UHC2030 co-chair and interim executive director of Women in Global Health. A visionary leader in global health, she has spearheaded successful initiatives as president and co-founder of the Institute for Global Health and Development, former minister of health of Guinea-Bissau, and senior positions in the World Health Organization Africa region.

Latest Articles

Global Health
Global Health
Opinion: Financing health for all requires bold moves away from aid
28 Apr 2025
As global health funding cuts threaten achieving universal health coverage, it’s time to push for domestic resource mobilization, health taxes, and debt mitigation to build resilient health systems.
Global health
Global health
Opinion: Women health workers face a double bind as aid dwindles
3 Apr 2025
Women health care workers are being asked to do more with less as cuts to aid threaten health care systems — while facing systemic underinvestment in gender equality in the sector.
Global health
Global health
Opinion: Self-reliant African health care can’t be a copy and paste
24 Feb 2023
Here are three lines of action that would ignite and multiply the impact of health policies, interventions, and financing that suit the African continent's specific realities.
Global health
Global health
Opinion: We must get women into the ‘control room’ in global health
2 Feb 2022
Here's how to make a radical shift toward gender equality in global health governance.
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