Ellen Johnson Sirleaf served as president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. She was the first woman to be democratically elected as head of state in Africa, and in 2011 became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is the founder of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development.
COVID-19 has shone a spotlight on hand-washing and ways of getting clean water and soap to billions of people who need them. Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf set out the steps we need to take to fix hand hygiene once and for all.
Community health workers have long responded to disease outbreaks while maintaining lifesaving services. Here are some investments to prioritize to end the pandemic and realize health for all.
One year after the emergence of COVID-19, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia, and Jakaya Kikwete, former president of Tanzania, discuss lessons from the pandemic on how African countries should respond to the ongoing threat of malaria.
In this op-ed, former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf discusses the actions 15 women leaders from the African continent took to combat the spread of the coronavirus in their communities.
